Fish > Sharks & Rays
The tasselled wobbegong has an explosive suction strike that lasts less than twenty milliseconds; it opens its mouth and expands its throat so rapidly that a powerful negative-pressure vacuum swallows whole fish and even other sharks before they can...
Fish > Ray-finned Fish
By taxiing along the wave crests and sculling its elongated lower tail lobe up to seventy times per second, the Atlantic flyingfish can remain airborne for over forty seconds and travel more than a quarter of a mile in a single...
Fish > Sharks & Rays
The cookiecutter shark has attached itself to and bitten clean chunks out of the rubber sonar domes and rubber-sheathed navigation cables of nuclear submarines, forcing the U.S. Navy to install fiberglass protective...
Fish > Flatfish
The European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) is a remarkably resilient, euryhaline marine flatfish native to the coastal shallows, estuaries, and river mouths of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, and Black Sea. Unlike virtually all other European...
Fish > Ray-finned Fish
The Common Dace (Leuciscus leuciscus) is an elegant, lightning-fast cyprinid fish native to the pristine, cool, flowing streams and rivers of Europe and northern Asia, ranging from the Atlantic coast of Britain and France across the Baltic, Black Sea, and Siberian...
Fish > Flatfish
The Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is widely regarded as the undisputed ‘king of flatfishes,’ an imposing, predatory marine species renowned for its nearly circular profile, exquisite white flesh, and premier culinary standing since Roman antiquity....
Fish > Flatfish
The European Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is one of the most commercially significant, ecologically influential, and visually distinctive marine flatfishes native to the shallow continental shelves of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Ranging from the icy waters of the...
Fish > Ray-finned Fish
OverviewThe Common Bream (Abramis brama), frequently referred to in angling literature as the bronze bream or freshwater bream, is a large, deep-bodied cyprinid native to the calm, nutrient-rich inland waters of Europe and western Asia. Its native distribution spans...
Fish > Ray-finned Fish
OverviewThe Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus) is one of the most ecologically abundant and commercially prominent freshwater fish species across temperate Eurasia, naturally distributed from Western Europe through Scandinavia, the Baltic drainage, and eastern European...
Fish > Ray-finned Fish
The Weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis), celebrated across European history as the ‘weather loach’ or ‘living barometer’, is one of the most biologically bizarre, environmentally resilient, and culturally famous freshwater teleosts on the Eurasian...
