Smithsonian Ichthyologist Matt Girard talks about how and why he studies archerfishes. Abigail Eisenstadt There’s a group of fishes that shoot water from their mouth to stun prey. Matt Girard, an ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

Fishery management systems can teach scientists how fish can be raised sustainably in wild fisheries. Emily Leclerc Climate change is causing oceans to warm, which in turn affects fish and fishers.

Mesopelagic fishes—the small fishes living in the ocean’s twilight zone—form one of the most characteristic features of the open ocean: the deep scattering layer at depths between 200 and 1,000 m, ...

Coming across the light-catching jewels of the springtime beach, the sort of bright and flashing gems that may or may not have been dropped on the beach by some great titan of the sea, can feel unreal ...

Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Adapted from What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, by Jonathan Balcombe. Copyright ...

A new study finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought. There's a whole lot of talking going on beneath the waves. A new study from Cornell University finds ...