Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

"Who is this alien?" is Mashable’s enduring series about the exceptionally peculiar critters that inhabit a relatively small, ocean-dominated world in the outer realms of the Milky Way galaxy, called ...

At Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, a pea-sized fish is making history. The baby warty frogfish, Antennariusmaculatus, is not only colorful and unique, but it is also the first of its kind to be successfully ...