Most of us probably associate fish with swimming but there’s a few species that actually choose walking as their preferred method of getting around. One group of species that takes a stroll along the ...

Frogfish are some of the most colorful creatures under the sea — and some of the most unique, too. They look more like frogs than fish with their leg-like fins and their quick-snapping jaws, but they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

The chances that you’ve ever seen a hairy frogfish before are slim, but they are some of the quickest vertebrate predators in the world for a specific reason. With a strange appearance and extremely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) feed on crustaceans and fish such as flounder. They use a modified first dorsal fin spine ...

Leaving alone on the seafloor is the lonely painted frogfish, Antennarius pictus. Males and females only come together for the dirty deed but quickly become ...

Popquiz: Can you spot the fish in this picture? That’s one of 47 species of the weird, sponge-like frogfish. Here are all 47 species. Frogfish are really good at blending in with their environment, ...

Any old fish can swim. But what fish can walk, scoot, clamber over rocks, change color or pattern and even fight? That would be the frogfish. The latest book by Ted Pietsch, UW professor of emeritus ...

"Who is this alien?" is Mashable’s enduring series about the exceptionally peculiar critters that inhabit a relatively small, ocean-dominated world in the outer realms of the Milky Way galaxy, called ...

For viewers who remember sitting through the BBC’s 11-part 2006 nature documentary series “Planet Earth” and its six-episode 2016 sequel “Planet Earth II,” it certainly didn’t come as a surprise for ...