Thousands of janitor fish were found dead after being washed onto a path during a typhoon in the Philippines. Footage shows the large black fish lining the banks of Marikina River that had reached ...

An elementary school janitor in New Jersey has been sentenced to eight years in jail after admitting he deliberately contaminated students’ cafeteria food with feces and bodily fluids. Giovanni ...

Image courtesy of inaturalist.org Fish in the genus Pterygoplichthys are commonly called “janitor fish,” as they’re used in aquariums to eat algae and keep the tanks clean.