Category: Fish

Last week in Indonesia, I and my friend went swimming around with manta rays. To be honest, looking at these big flat sharks like rays for the very first time made me pretty nervous. I wanted to know...

Last week, I went to an aquarium to see some sharks. It was very thrilling to watch these big furious creatures from so close. I was curious to know a lot about these creatures and right then a...

That some marine fish, such as the salmon, enter fresh water to breed is a fairly well-known fact, but many people do not know that a few freshwater fish reverse the process. So, do freshwater...

A few species of lampreys normally feed upon small organisms such as worms, insects and various other forms of water life, but most marine lampreys and all hagfish are parasitic upon fish. This is...

Many marine lampreys come into fresh water to breed and, as they go upstream, sometimes encounter waterfalls too swift for easy swimming. Faced with such an obstacle, the lampreys use their...

The mouth of the lamprey and the hagfish puts them high on the list of nature's oddities. Instead of having jaws, the mouth is surrounded by a band of cartilage. The creatures are thus doomed to swim...