No marine iguana ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus ) article would be complete without Charles Darwin's famous defamations against the reptiles,...

One would think that epibiotic growth, that is, commensal organisms attached to a living surface, would be neutral at best and a hindrance t...

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I was unaware of this order of fishes until National Geographic updated an AP story concerning a ...

Not to be confused with the plant genus of the same name. Photograph from Wikipedia Poor neglected Ranzania , how has it been over a month ...

In the first two posts I've mostly discussed Mola , a clade of three genetically distinct species whose morphological and biogeographi...

In the previous post I argued that molids were among the strangest of fishes on the basis of peculiarities such as their loss of a caudal f...

Of all the variations on the vertebrate "fish" body plan, molids are among the most bizarre. Yes, I'm well aware of how stran...