Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was crowned this week as Fish of the Year by a New Zealand environmental group.

Banksy, the elusive street artist, has left behind a series of works of art which depict various animals in silhouette and color. Fans have flocked to his recent work to photograph it.

Broadly speaking, animals tend to use color to communicate, said Oscar Puebla, a fish ecologist at the Leibniz Centre for ... so they use that to break their silhouette as a way of camouflaging." The ...

This shape allows the spookfish to collect as much light as possible from above and spot the silhouette of animals swimming over it. But in doing so, it sacrifices the ability to spot other ...

They produce a dim glow that matches the strength of moonlight from above, hiding the squid’s silhouette from hungry fish below.

But these little fish are still about 22 million times more populous than all of them combined. And just one genus of this bristlemouth fi, Cyclothone, is considered the most abundant vertebrate ...

Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was crowned this week as Fish of the Year by a New Zealand environmental group.

As crowds flock to London to see the animal silhouettes while they still can, here’s where to go to see Banksy’s art around the world.

Banksy has confirmed he is behind a new swimming fish artwork which has appeared on a police sentry box in the City of London. It marks the seventh animal-themed piece the elusive street artist ...

MBARI researchers came across a rarely seen dreamer anglerfish off California's coast. Video footage of the alien-looking fish only shows its silhouette because its skin is so dark it absorbs ...