Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature with “canine-like” teeth swam around the coral reef. Maybe it was its vibrant coloring or its spiny body, but something about the ...
The creature was pulled more than 500 feet to the surface and it was identified as a scorpionfish, a kind of rock-dwelling fish armed with venom-filled spines. Now, researchers have discovered ...
It turned out to be a new species. In the 1970s, scientists collected several “large”-eyed scorpionfish from an island in Australia and a few other remote locales. The specimens were thought ...