When Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s campus closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Scripps scientist and Marine Vertebrate Collection curator Phil Hastings grabbed specimens of ...

This 4-inch long, skinny fish has a huge smile on its face, and looks totally harmless. It swims in open water above the reef and wiggles back and forth like an earthworm crawls, and it is one of the ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny new species of fish the size of an Aspirin pill—and they named it after the COVID-19 pandemic. The fish, dubbed the "pandemic blenny," was described in a study ...

Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that being a 'jack of all trades' allows species to make the dramatic transition onto land but adapting into ...