Hailing from the marshes and rice paddies of Southeast Asia, betta fish are primarily known for two things: their gorgeous, ...

In more recent years, over 55,000 public votes were cast in 1984 to name the State of Hawaii’s official fish. The lauwiliwili nukunuku ‘oi’oi finished in third place following a narrow ...

The name of the new blenny species was inspired by Hastings' isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well the fish's very small range that is restricted to the waters of Costa Rica's Cocos Island.

The fish most Texas anglers call “whiting” are not the species whose official common name is whiting. These small fish, often caught from piers along the beachfront are really Gulf and ...

Fish with crazy names make swamp-fishing fun. April 14, 2019 at 12:00 a.m. ... Those less than 7 inches feed primarily on small crustaceans, but larger fish are insect-eaters.

The Royal BC Museum in Victoria has put on display a fish with a large head, small brain and unflattering name: a bony-eared assfish. The deep-sea creature, about 30 centimetres long, was caught ...

Kristina Louie, a student researcher who died in 2004, gave a small fish species its scientific name – the Eucyclogobius kristinae. Ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Jacobs ...