"Who is this alien?" is Mashable’s enduring series about the exceptionally peculiar critters that inhabit a relatively small, ocean-dominated world in the outer realms of the Milky Way galaxy, called ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported. The frogfish — which has a swirl ...

Most fish have eyes on the sides of their heads, but a scientist now has confirmed a new and elusive species of carnivorous frogfish with eyes that face forward, like ours. The creature also has a ...

A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, an American scientific journal reported. The frogfish - which has a swirl of tan and ...

A bizarre fish discovered off the coast of an Indonesian island has officially been declared a new species, and given a name that researchers say celebrates its oddity: Histiophryne psychedelica. The ...

Psychedelic FrogfishThe unusual color palate of the psychedelic frogfish (Histiophyrne psychedelica) mimics several species of hard coral, which typically serve as hiding places for the gelatinous ...