This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Existing in a seemingly ...

“People are very intrigued by seahorses,” says Leslee Matsushige, associate curator at Birch Aquarium. And intriguing fish — signs of whimsy in the relentlessly efficient natural world — are good PR ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Seaside Aquarium returned a family of skates to the Pacific Ocean on April 17 after the unborn fishes’ egg sack was found washed ashore at Seaside Beach on Oct. 2. The ...

More than 70 weedy seadragons have hatched at Birch Aquarium in La Jolla after a first-of-its kind egg transfer in the public eye. The babies began hatching Feb. 26 and continued through March 2, ...

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What difference does it make whether an angler catches one big fish or two smaller fish, each half its weight? Experts assumed that big and small fish invest the same proportion of their energy to ...

PENYABANGAN, Indonesia — It took a broken air conditioner for Tom Bowling to figure out — after nearly eight months of failure — how to breed the coveted pink-yellow tropical fish known as blotched ...

When you're not as big as the rest of the guys, sometimes you have to come up with different strategies to thrive. That seems to be what's happened with a rare fish found in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico.

Contrary to prevailing dogma, plus-sized female fish invest disproportionately more in making eggs than smaller females. Therefore, taking a single big fish has a bigger impact on the fish population ...