Researchers have just published a study demonstrating that the flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans) emits sounds while ...

To escape predators beneath the waves, a flying fish can shoot out of the water and glide long distances because its paired pectoral and pelvic fins, longer and more rigid than those of other fish, ...

Ribbon halfbeak are a species of fish with the ability to fly above the sea surface - but unlike true 'flying fish', they lack the necessary hind wing fins. So how do they fly? Dr Yoshinobu Inada from ...

How can flying fish lift off? Flying fish are a great example of how animals evolve different ways to escape predators. There are 64 species of flying fish, and they are the only fish in the world ...

The first flying fish may have evolved to escape marine reptile predators, researchers say. These new findings hint that marine life may have recovered more quickly than before thought after the ...

Do the twist: ribbon halfbeak fish have a unique method of flight Scientists have uncovered how ribbon halfbeak fish “fly” despite having no hind wing fins. Yoshinobu Inada from Tokai University in ...

Peer into any fishbowl, and you’ll see that pet goldfish and guppies have nimble fins. With a few flicks of these appendages, aquarium swimmers can turn in circles, dive deep down or even bob to the ...

FLYING-FISH are incapable of flying for the simple reason that the muscles of their pectoral fins are not large enough to bear the weight of their body aloft in the air. The pectoral muscles of birds ...

Ribbon halfbeak are a species of fish with the ability to fly above the sea surface -- but unlike true 'flying fish', they lack the necessary hind wing fins. So how do they fly? Ribbon halfbeak are a ...

Flying fish, for example, deploy their fins to glide above the water, while mudskippers use their fins like legs to walk on land. "We like to pick up where the biologists and zoologists have left off, ...