South America has the most diverse wildlife of any continent, with an extremely high species count. And some of South America ...
Researchers studied the male spotted ratfish's tooth-covered forehead appendage, which flares out to ward off rivals and grip onto females. Reading time 3 minutes Spotted ratfish are scaleless, rabbit ...
A juvenile spotted ratfish. These deep-sea fish are named for their long, rat-like tails. Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida Deep in the ocean, you can find a strange fish with teeth not just 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 ...