The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...

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University of Washington scientists have made a remarkable discovery: real teeth growing on the forehead of a deep-sea ratfish. This finding sheds light on the unique adaptations in fish anatomy, ...

Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

The ocean can be a mystifying place. As much as we know about the world around us, and how it came to be, the deepest depths of the oceans can be an unknown. Fortunately, some of these mysteries have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern adult male spotted ratfish. This fossil ...