When Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s campus closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Scripps scientist and Marine Vertebrate Collection curator Phil Hastings grabbed specimens of ...

You’ve heard of flying fish, but did you know about the legless leaping fish, which spends its life on land? Scientists studying these strange, rock-dwelling creatures called blennies have found that ...

The small fish with a big personality: Study reveals unique blenny behaviour – in pictures The discovery of unique face markings on individual blennies enabled underwater photographer Paul Naylor to ...

Meiacanthus atrodorsalis—a pretty little fish with a venomous bite. Photo by Klaus Stiefel via Flickr "Did you tell her the one about George Losey and the blenny?" Rich Pyle asked with a knowing smirk ...

A BLENNY fish pokes its head out of a coral reef off the Caribbean island of St Lucia. Blennies aren’t known for their looks. They tend to be small, dull-coloured and slimy – hence their name, which ...