British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Metazoan parasites, including various types of worms and flatworms, are common in freshwater fish species and can significantly impact fish health and aquaculture. Recent research has focused on ...

Cichlid fish, particularly those found in the East African Great Lakes, are known for their remarkable diversity and evolutionary adaptations. This diversity extends to their parasites ...

A recent report by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) revealed that populations of parasitic ... fish equipped with a suction-cup mouth filled with sharp teeth and a rasping tongue that ...

photo provided by Darby Communications THE FISH THIEF recounts how the Great Lakes were brought to their knees by the sea lamprey, a parasitic invader that decimated the lake trout population.

Taking an example from biology, he provided an analogy in which the Gupta family was the parasite cymothoa exigua, or tongue-eating louse, and Zuma its host, a fish. He explained that the parasite ...

There is the Banggai cardinal fish, found only in Indonesia ... An anemonefish with a tongue-biter isopod parasite peering out of its mouth, in Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Photo: supplied by CSU. COASTAL anglers are being asked to help find a solution to the spread of “mushy fish”. Charles Sturt University (CSU) researcher and Lecturer in Ecology Dr Jessica Tout-Lyon, ...

The reason that there are no skeletons at the wreck of the Titanic is basically because once the flesh of their bodies was ...