Unless you grew up on the water, it's very possible you've never given much thought to the anatomy of a fish. Especially if you're used to picking up a cleaned, scaled, and deboned filet from the ...

The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world. By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader ...

You may be wondering: Why should I learn how to gut and scale a fish at home when I could easily ask a fishmonger to do it for me? Isn’t that the whole point of going to a fishmonger? Why is ...

Fish feast on a wide variety of food including worms, crustaceans and plants. But, some others—known as scale-eaters—prefer to rip the scales off of other fish and then eat them. In order to better ...

Think of them as extra-large parasites. A small group of fishes -- possibly the world's cleverest carnivorous grazers -- feeds on the scales of other fish in the tropics. The different species' ...