The first fossil fishes are known from scant and often ambiguous fossil remains, and research published today in Nature gives us the first clear picture of exactly what these earliest fishes were ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

FISH are exceedingly strange creatures with even stranger faces. But we reckon we've found the ten weirdest species from a pool of almost 28,000. There are no exceptions. With that in mind, we've ...

Let’s be honest – when most of us think of fish, we don’t expect anything too dramatic. But the ocean clearly didn’t get that memo. Some fish out there are so colourful and unique, they look like they ...

Over 3,200 freshwater fish species have been recorded in Africa, with 28 new freshwater fish species described in 2024 alone. Africa has the world's highest per capita catch of freshwater fish: 2.56 ...

A tiny desert fish survives in a sun-scorched cavern on the edge of extinction. Here’s how it’s offering scientists a rare glimpse into the extremes life can endure. If you ever needed proof that ...

AUSSIE scientists have hauled in a bunch of extremely rare and strange creatures from the deepest and darkest depths of the ocean, seldom seen by humans. And the collection includes previously ...

Did you know that there are more than 34,000 different kinds of fish swimming in our oceans and rivers today? That is a lot of fish! Some of them have funny nicknames too, like the "living fossil" for ...

The smallest fish in the world has been found lurking in the peat wetlands of Southeast Asia, say scientists. The record-busting newcomer, Paedocypris progenetica, is skinny and transparent, and a ...

When Lisa Smiler went fishing in Wattie Creek, she certainly wasn't expecting to catch a 2.7-metre sawfish. Gurindgi ranger Philip Jimmy said Ms Smiler was frightened. "She thought it was some other ...