Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side? By Carl Zimmer A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat as a pancake, its head ...

Body characteristics needed for deep-sea survival can give creatures an alien-like look. But one scientist called the newly ...

My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or misleading impression of reality. This occurs because the brain processes visual ...

The blind side of a Remo flounder's head as it was being dissected Paulo Presti When ichthyologist Paulo Presti, a graduate student at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, found a jar containing a ...

Could be fishing for compliments. Two rare, large and odd-looking fish washed up on a beach in California this past weekend — ...