Fish
Which species are named after Sir David Attenborough? And how many of them are there?
Sir David Attenborough has over 50 species named after him, ranging from a prehistoric marine reptile to a native British flower only found in the Brecon Beacons of South Wales.
Scientists drop recorders into Amazon stream – and catch predators hunting like orcas
Electric eels 'switch off' their electronic pulses to sneak up on prey – a hunting strategy similar to that of orcas using (and not using) echolocation.
When a mountain collapsed in Mexico, light fell upon an underground lake. What happened next was remarkable
How a unique cave ecosystem helped researchers understand the genetic basis of blindness in cavefish.
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"They can survive up to an hour in the icy water and use razor-sharp protruding teeth to scrape away ice."10 amazing, remarkable Antarctic animals...
Discover the most remarkable, captivating wildlife that thrives in one of the least hospitable places on Earth – Antarctica
Each year, thousands of fish fall from the sky in Utah. This is why
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has been aerially stocking fish for decades
"It's famous for its saw-like snout edged with sharp teeth, used for slashing through schools of fish." 12 weirdest, bizarrest sharks on the planet...
Celebrate the wonder and variety of these ancient, much-misunderstood fish in our list of the weirdest sharks in our oceans
'Water tigers' are lingering in the shallows of rivers and lakes. Here's what they're up to
Spring means one thing for perch – it's time to spawn
How long can a fish live out of water? Meet one weird fish that can survive two months on dry land...
The amount of time a fish can survive out of water depends on the type of fish, and there is one species that is particularly adept...
They can have 30,000 teeth and some really do die if they stop swimming: 35 incredible, hard-to-believe, fascinating shark facts
Celebrate the wonder and variety of sharks, an ancient and much-misunderstood fish.
It’s a slimy, prehistoric, grisly parasite with the mouth of an alien. And two fearless photographers are obsessed with finding it
The sea lamprey is not a creature with mass appeal, yet there is something about this ancient and mysterious eel-like fish and its extraordinary life-cycle that fascinates photographers Sébastien Barrio and Aurore Barrio.
For 50 years, there have been rumours of these fish climbing waterfalls. Scientists just filmed them doing it for the first time
Remarkable footage shows hundreds of shellear fish scrambling up Luvilombo Falls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"Come sundown it slips into a crevice and secretes a bubble of mucus that swells up and over its head like a diving helmet..."
The queen parrotfish Scarus vetula is by day a beautiful and diver-friendly reef fish. By night, it’s a reclusive slime-bag. Literally. Here's why...
Florida's 'spinning' sawfish were in trouble. Now, scientists think they may have hope
An area of the Indian River Lagoon in Florida may be providing suitable habitat for juvenile smalltooth sawfish, suggesting there is hope for the recovery of the critically endangered species.
This river giant can grow over 1m long, weigh more than 5kg and lay an astonishing 500,000 eggs
Meet the mighty northern pike.
436-million-year-old fossil found in South China is oldest complete bony fish ever discovered
The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.
No that's not a golf ball on its head – one man-made very weird species...
Discover on of the world's weirdest fish that was entirely man made.
"Like an ‘aircraft’ hovering in the middle of the water." Ghostly cavefish found beneath the ground in China
The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.
This “unique and crazy” prehistoric fish is the size of a door. Now thousands are being released into a remote Swedish river
The Atlantic sturgeon was driven to extinction in Europe by the middle of the 20th century. In Sweden’s Göta River, a pioneering rewilding initiative is helping this ancient fish to reclaim its ancestral home
Just like in Jaws, this great white shark got stuck in a small pond. Here’s what happened next...
When a great white shark got trapped in a shallow saltwater pond in Massachusets, Greg Skomal was called to help. Here’s how the experts tried to free her
"It doesn't come much weirder than having a see-through head!" 16 strangest, weirdest fish in the world, including one that can incredibly live out of water
Our seas are brimming with strange and wonderful creatures. Meet 13 of the weirdest fish in the world, which sport everything from super-long noses to golfball heads
Plants play techno, chimps drum and one creature uses its minuscule penis as a bow – why music isn’t just for humans
It’s not just the hills that are alive with the sound of music – ponds and oceans thrum with tunes, too
It lasted thousands of years and puzzled Aristotle and Freud – is this the biggest animal mystery of all time?
Scientists were left baffled over how eels reproduced – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned
Do sharks really die if they stop swimming?
Why for some sharks stopping isn't an option...
“Literally caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.” Hunted from above and below, is this the world’s unluckiest fish?
Footage from the BBC TV series The Hunt demonstrates how the life of a flying fish can be a tough one
