Studies reveal fish don’t just react by reflex. Their nervous systems prioritize pain, triggering stress and trauma that can last minutes.

Researchers recorded more than 1,000 fish sounds in Barkley Sound, an inslet on the coast of Vancouver Island in British ...

Have you ever wished you could swim like a fish? How about speak like one? In a paper recently published in the Journal of ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Can we finally retire the myth that goldfish have three-second memories? This oft-cited “fact” has been thoroughly debunked. Scientists have shown that fish can distinguish and remember individuals, ...

Fish are one of the species in the world with the most diversity. These aquatic animals come in different shapes, colors, and skeletal compositions. Some are endemic to freshwater habitats, and others ...

Tuna, opah, and billfishes such as marlins and swordfish are among the 0.1% of fish species that are warm-blooded. Evidence by an international team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

A fish species thought to be extinct has suddenly been found in a small pond in Bolivia. The rare seasonal killifish, Moema claudiae, has not been recorded in the wild for more than 20 years and its ...