Cape Cod fishermen have been helping scientists track monkfish. Here’s why it matters for the fishery, the fish, and your ...

During my Hinge days, at least 50% of the dates I went on went like this: After seeing each other a handful of times, the ...

Colour patterns in fish are a combination of pigment cells, genetic control, and the interactions that occur between them. These patterns play crucial roles in communication, camouflage, mate choice, ...

A surprising discovery in Antarctica's Weddell Sea revealed a vast 'fish city' beneath the ice, where thousands of tiny polar fish have built intricate nests. This unexpected find, made during a ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a ...

Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves. By Kate Golembiewski Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal ...

Great Lakes steelhead are adfluvial fish, meaning they migrate from big lakes into rivers to spawn. This annual migration starts in the fall and ends in the spring when they return to the lakes to ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

While seaching for Ernest Shackleton's lost ship Endurance in 2019, researchers stumbled across clusters of indentations on the seafloor. Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 Scientists were using an ...

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU Boulder scientists refined their previous theory of how animal patterns form and ...

Abstract: Wild fish recognition is a fundamental problem of ocean ecology research and contributes to the understanding of biodiversity. Given the huge number of wild fish species and unrecognized ...

Scientists have spotted something dramatically unusual in the ocean, and it could be a warning sign of things to come. Warm air dances with cold air; cold water chases warm water. It's all a part of a ...