Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Researchers studying rockhead poachers from Deadman Bay think they may have solved the mystery of the fish's odd bowl-shaped ...

The rockhead, or deep-pitted, poacher may use its ribs to beat the inside of its head cavity to communicate with other ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling our own. By examining a 67-million-year-old fossil, researchers from UC ...

Scientists have documented the first-ever record of an oarfish (Regalecus russellii) in Sri Lanka, a 2.6-meter (8.5-foot) specimen caught off the country’s western coast. The find expands the known ...

Salem nature photographer and content creator Brian Stone was salmon fishing alone Sept. 17 near Newport when he met one of the ocean’s strangest animals: an ocean sunfish. With the boat’s engine ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely ...

An artist's reconstruction of the Weberian apparatus in a 67 million-year-old fossil fish. The Weberian structure (gold-colored bones at center) arose from a rib (shown in gray attached to several ...

Kate Trinajstic receives funding from Australian Research Council, ANSTO synchrotron merit funding John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Vincent Dupret received funding from ...

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed hovering was a type of rest. Now, a new study reveals that fish use nearly twice as much energy when ...

A 6½-foot ocean sunfish washed ashore about a quarter-mile south of the Sunset Beach approach near Gearhart. Members of the genus Mola, these true bony fish — unlike sharks, which have only cartilage ...