Male plainfin midshipman toadfish produce an antibacterial fluid that keeps the eggs in their care healthy. Plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus) live in the deep sea of the eastern Pacific and ...

While trying to identify a photo of a fish sent to me by my friend Captain Tom Testaverde, I misidentified it as an oyster toadfish. It turned out to be a northern stargazer. Stay tuned next week for ...

The fastest muscles in the world belong not to Usain Bolt or even a cheetah, but to the sluggish toadfish. Natalie Angier describes the toadfish in today’s New York Times, and her story is science ...

Evolution has so precisely honed certain specialized muscles involved in fish mating calls that the muscles are now physically incapable of much else, including any significant locomotion, biologists ...