Offshore trips require quite a bit of planning and pre-work all in hopes of coming home with a full cooler of fish! Of course ...

The typical dorsal fin is a triangular-shaped piece of skin wrapped around muscles and bony spines or rays that sits on a fish’s back, behind its head. As a fish swims through water, the dorsal ...

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed that this meant that it was a type of rest. Now, a new study reveals that fish use nearly twice as ...

How to spot one. The northern snakehead fish’s appearance lives up to its name. It’s long and thin with a dorsal fin that runs the length of its body, USGS explains.

A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, have revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, a jawless freshwater fish, possessed paired fins.

Codie Carlson from Newport, Michigan, broke Michigan's flathead catfish record while bowfishing at Plum Creek in Monroe ...

A trove of fossils, unearthed in rock from China dating back some 436 million years, has revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, members of an extinct clade of jawless fish ...

Fossil shows fish evolved to walk on land — then went back to the water After an ancient fish developed legs, ... He says the newly discovered fossil has a totally different fin from its relative.

It’s long and thin with a dorsal fin that runs the length of its body, USGS explains. The fish’s brown skin and dark blotches almost make it look like a boa constrictor or another snake.

A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, have revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, a jawless freshwater fish, possessed paired fins.