Off the coast of Japan, a small, spikey orange fish was caught on the end of a fishing line. The creature was pulled more than 500 feet to the surface and it was identified as a scorpionfish, a kind ...

“Even these spines from this really odd, derived group of fishes, the pufferfish, still use the same set of genes that makes hair, feathers, fish scales, and shark dermal denticles.” Pufferfish belong ...

Climbing perch use their pectoral fins and tail to move around on land. They also use the spines on the lower edges of their gill covers ...

Although the fish flaunts long fins and swims gracefully, the “lady of the sea” has venomous spines on the fins protruding from its back, stomach and hip. Five red lionfish are kept at Maxell ...