At first glance, the blobfish, also known as a flathead sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus), looks like a pinkish, gelatinous blob with a droopy mouth and a sagging nose. It looks even worse when it is ...

Evolution is usually a masterpiece of efficiency, but every once in a while, it feels like the natural world ran out of resources and had to finish a project using whatever leftovers were in the bin.

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 ...

Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological ...