A school of scrawled filefish make their way over the coral reef in Mexico. They are ornate fish with a flat profile and a large fan tail. They are capable of changing colour to mimic their ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia, Dec. 10 (UPI) --For the orange spotted filefish (or harlequin filefish), the saying "you are what you eat" isn't just a cliche, it's a way of life. At some point in evolutionary ...

A species of small fish uses a homemade coral-scented cologne to hide from predators, a new study has shown, providing the first evidence of chemical camouflage from diet in fish. A species of small ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It may be the health mantra largely ignored on dry land but under the sea, it seems "you are what you eat" is certainly a matter of life ...

* Description: From the side, filefish appear almost circular, with a large eye located high on the head, pouting lips and an elongated tail. From the front, however, they almost disappear, so thin is ...

Loulu the Scrawled Filefish is a bizarre looking sea creature! It can grow to almost 3 feet long but it is only two inches wide. Its huge tail fin can be a third of its body length and it has a tiny ...

This 10-inch long fish is one of the most beautiful creatures on the Hawaiian reef, but often divers go right on by and ignore it. When this fish is just causally swimming by or hiding in a cave it is ...

COURTESY RUSSELL GILBERT Fantail filefish are back on island reefs. After the filefish dried, people burned them as fuel. No one knows how often fantail filefish populations exploded in old Hawaii.