What is it about flounder that seems to get y'all so riled up? I must have received 20 or more phone calls and emails asking me where I caught the flounder I was holding in the picture that ran on the ...

This moldy pancake is actually the flowery flounder (Bothus mancus), a vivid plane of a fish that expertly changes its color to match its surroundings. The very flat fish’s dorsal (top) side is ...

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MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—On the open sand plains of the Caribbean seafloor, where soft-bodied animals are routinely exposed to predators, camouflage can be key to survival. Perhaps no group of animals is ...

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Look-alike flounders in the Gulf of Finland are not one but two different species, and the predominant species about thirty years ago has now almost completely disappeared from there. Using flounder ...

Q My daughter and I are new to fishing and recently caught a flounder. It had both eyes on the same side of its head. Is that normal? A. Yes. Flounder are a type of flatfish that spend most of their ...

Many animals have evolved camouflage, but nobody quite pulls it off as beautifully as the octopus and its tentacled cousin the cuttlefish. These invertebrates, which belong to a group called ...