In this stunning YouTube clip, a frogfish bides its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at an unsuspecting cardinal fish. This gives us time to observe it and wonder whether it is a frog or ...

"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 ...

Behold the frogfish. This bizarre creature really is a fish, despite its bullfrog face, pectoral fins that look like webbed feet, and a froglike mouth that snaps up unsuspecting prey. But the way it ...

The chances that you’ve ever seen a hairy frogfish before are slim, but they are some of the quickest vertebrate predators in the world for a specific reason. With a strange appearance and extremely ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) feed on crustaceans and fish such as flounder. They use a modified first dorsal fin spine ...

The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that ...

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The Kratts find a frogfish – a type of fish that disguises itself as coral! Chris and Martin finish counting the number of species that live in the underwater reef they are in. While they talk to ...

This week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast brought an exciting find — several sargassum frogfish, also known as anglerfish, hidden among the freshly washed-up mats of seaweed. These ...