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In the ocean's depths, you find a fish standing on elongated fins. Meet the tripod fish, like a living tripod anchored on the ...
Some fish blend seamlessly into their watery surroundings with help from their silvery reflective skin. Researchers have long assumed that squid, shrimp and other ocean animals could see through ...
Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments. Science , 2015; 350 (6263): 965 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad5284 Cite This Page : ...
A study released Thursday says that two ocean fish -- the big-eyed scad and the lookdown -- have fine-tuned a method of avoiding predators by hiding in light. Elements in their silvery skin render ...
The grunion run happens only in the spring and summer months. Late at night, under the full and new moons, thousands of tiny, silvery fish swim to shore for a very peculiar mating ritual.
The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus) inhabits both coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, displaying a blue-green upper body, silver ...
“It’s absolutely delicious,” says Kotatsu Yamazaki as he helps his young daughters bite off pieces of the small, elongated fish with a silvery bellow known as sanma in Japanese and also as ...
This Ancient Fish Gave the Whole Ocean the Stiff Lower Lip. ... Dr. Jobbins thinks the elongated jaw, which was studded with recurved teeth that extended well past where its top jaw ended, ...