A new study shows how an amphibious fish stays alive for up to two months on land. It's all in the skin. A new study shows how an amphibious fish stays alive for up to two months on land. It's all in ...

In the game of love, we typically think of males as being the showy courting sex and females being the coy choosy sex. But what if your species doesn't have the simple division of males and females?

A self-replicating fish replicates only its own DNA, but researchers have found the mangrove killifish has a remarkable amount of genetic diversity across its species. As weird animals go, the ...

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It's one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water. The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish. Scientists have discovered that it spends ...

It's the ultimate example of "a fish out of water". Scientists have discovered that the mangrove killifish spends several months of the year living inside trees. The remarkable creatures temporarily ...

The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites (SN: 11/02/02, p. 275: More Frog Trouble: Herbicides may emasculate wild males). But what happens when a naturally ...

TITUSVILLE, Fla., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Biologists in Belize and Florida have discovered that the mangrove killifish lives in trees when the water they usually live in has disappeared. The London Telegraph ...

A new study shows how an amphibious fish stays alive for up to two months on land. It's all in the skin. Mangrove killifish are small fish—only about an inch or two long—that live in temporary pools ...