For centuries, sailors told terrifying stories of glowing sea serpents rising from the depths — enormous silvery creatures ...

A research team led by Profs. ZHU Min, LU Jing, and ZHU You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

MOST people know the difference in shape that there is between the tail (caudal fin) of a salmon and that of a shark; how in the former the lobes of the fin seem to be equal or symmetrical (homocercal ...

The ocean sunfish looks like an evolutionary mistake: no tail, no ribs, no axial swimming muscles, and a body that appears half-finished. Yet it is the heaviest bony fish on Earth, reaching weights ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, disk-like body and a distinctive bulge on its head and chin, this massive ...