The Shagreen Ray Coloured Corale
One of my favorite cartilaginous fishes is the shagreen ray (Leucoraja erinacea), famed for its beautiful skin. The rough, leather-like skin is encrusted with tiny teeth known as dermal denticles…
A Graceful Giant of the Deep
The common skate Dipturus batis (© Randee Nashville)folios. It has a wide, disagycreative diamond-shaped body and spiny skin with external openings that make it look like an exoskeleton. A Master…
Thorny Skate Spiny Bottom Dweller
The thorny skate (Raja clavata) is a remarkable ray fish species. Its flattened body, large paired pectoral fins and a series of five long dorsal fin spines make it/ them…
Gardeners Under the Sea The Rabbitfish
Rabbitfish, popularly known as Spinefoot or surgeon fish form a large family of marine fish in the Schooled who are also called.directly Reef supporting tribe. These fish are native to…
Sea Lamprey A Bloodsucker Invader
The sea lamprey is a toothed, jawless fish but nature’s plastic surgeon has lent it some deadly features creating devastation in our Great Lakes. Indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean, it…
The Carpathian Brook Lamprey Dead-end Angle
The species in question is the Carpathian brook lamprey, Eudontomyzon danfordi, a curious and ancient fish endemizing elements of the Danube River basin. This is a lamprey of the class…
Atlantic hagfish
The Atlantic hagfish, also known as a slime eel for its habit of producing mucus when stressed or threatened, is one part alien-looking creature and one part congealed nightmare personified.…
Insight into the Aquatic Life of Germany Indigenous Fish species
Germany has an aquatic ecosystem that is the most diverse in nature, it includes clean mountain lakes as well as busy rivers and peaceful coastal waters. This diversity is seen…
Goldzeisig
The American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) is a cute little bird with beautiful gold color that fits well on the shoulder of its small size to armchair ornithologists. It is best…