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This Bizarre Fish Has a Hole in Its Head. The Creature Might Use It Like a Drum to Rock Out

The rockhead, or deep-pitted, poacher may use its ribs to beat the inside of its head cavity to communicate with other ...

Meet The Fish That Can Survive Without Oxygen For Months. Hint: It Lives Beneath Ice

When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...

Meet The Fish That Can Recognize Human Faces — A Biologist Explains

A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...
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6 Fish That Are Highest in Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin critical for bone growth and cell development. Rainbow trout, salmon, sardines, tuna, mackerel, and herring are good sources.

Why This Fish Actually Needs a Hole in the Head

A cavity in the middle of the rockhead poacher’s skull might be used like a maraca to produce sound, new research suggests.

Rare, endangered prehistoric fish washes ashore in SC for 3rd time in 2 months. Here’s where

Another rare and prehistoric fish washed ashore on Fripp Island in Beaufort County this week. Here’s what we know.