Seaside Aquarium staff seized the opportunity, examining the contents of the stomach of the beached creature, which included entire squids and undigested fish The deep-sea creatures are also known as ...

Deep in the ocean, you can find a strange fish with teeth not just in its mouth, but also on its head. The spotted ratfish, a ...

Scientists found a 3-foot-long creature with “sharp” teeth in a river in Vietnam and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Hieu Do Quang via Unsplash In a river of southern Vietnam, a ...

The male ratfish has a unique, club-shaped appendage on its forehead, called a tenaculum, which it uses to cling to the ...

Life is strange in the deep sea. For the male spotted ratfish — a ghostly relative of sharks, also known as the chimaera — it gets stranger. When he finds a mate, he doesn’t just sidle up. He grabs ...

The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern adult male spotted ratfish. This fossil record helped them establish the historical significance of this structure, ...

Ratfish developed "forehead teeth" called tenaculum for reproduction, offering rare insight into the flexibility of ...

El Paso Matters reported this week that the county is considering draining Ascarate Lake to prevent “periodic fish kills and deepening the lake by excavating sediment and debris for the first time in ...

The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...