Fishy Facts

The blue dragon, Glaucus atlanticus, is a type of mollusk, or sea slug, known as a nudibranch. These are shell-less...

Salps are semi-transparent barrel-shaped zooplankton resembling jellyfish. However, despite the resemblance, salps are in a separate phylum from jellyfish, their...

Five species of similar-looking stilts are recognized in the genus Himantopus. They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their...

Ghost shrimp are small, soft, and translucent crustaceans of the intertidal zone. Despite what their name and appearance suggest though,...

Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of...

Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and...

With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to...

Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over...

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with...

"The woodland lakes would be solitudes, indeed, did they lack the finishing touch to make the picture complete – the...

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