Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the depths of the ocean where sunlight can’t reach? That would be ...

If you fish along the Gulf of Mexico coast, you might come across a striped fish with human-like teeth. Sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) are omnivorous saltwater fish that live along ...

Not all creepy things go bump in the night -- some of them swim. While you might think of fish as harmless little dudes hanging out in your aquarium, there are some ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

A new species of piranha-like fish called pacu was recently found hiding in plain sight among several near-identical species in the Amazon River. Researchers have named it after Sauron from "The Lord ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth are ...

Can we examine the teeth of living fish and other vertebrates in detail, repeatedly over time, without harming them? Previously, small animals often had to be euthanized to obtain precise information, ...