The great barracuda is a fierce looking predator that lives and hunts primarily alone. He is a curious fish, and is very common to the shallow waters in Florida. He is very distinct in his shape and body due to the elongated torpedo-like torso...

The tiger shark, which is a night hunter has a reputation for eating anything in its path, little caring if it is nutritional or not. Tiger sharks are known to be very aggressive. They have an ability to pick up pressure waves that help him to mo...

Tropical rays, which are in some circles thought to be related to sharks, Sawfish are found in rivers, lacks and places here saltwater will be mixed with fresh water in Australia. Sawfish have a very flat body, with a long flat snout that has g...

Contrary to popular myth, sea dragons are not a species of sea horse.
They are found only in Australian waters and although they belong to the same family as sea horses they are a distinct species. They do not have a pouch for their babies, and t...

Known as the living fossil, the coelacanth was thought to be extinct for many thousands of years. Then amazingly, one appeared alive. The ancestors of this fish date to the dinosaur era several million years ago and it was thought that all th...

The Whale shark is a very slow, filter feeding shark. Sometimes these are also called suspension feeders. This means that they strain food from the water through some special physical structure, an example of this is the brushlike teeth, c...

The nurse shark is a large and very sluggish shark that lives on the bottom of the ocean. Usually Nurse Sharks are harmless, unless they are provoked to anger. Nurse sharks have extremely strong jaws and a very wide head with barbells protrud...

A Black Dragonfish is a very long, very thin fish that lives in deep water and will go as low in the water as about 2 thousand feet. They are at home in the depths of the ocean and will spend their entire lives there, without surfacing much closer t...

The Lizard fish is a smaller predator fish that lives in the depths of the water. They are found throughout the world. The Lizard Fish has a very short dorsal fin, a small fatty second dorsal fin and a caudal fin which bursts a very deep fork in it...

Bull Sharks are known by many other names, among them Cub Shark and Nicaragua Shark. They have a very stout body and a broad short face and snout. Their eyes are very small in comparison to their bodies and they boast a pointed typical dorsal fi...

The Alligator Gar is an aggressive, solitary fish found in the southeastern United States. The alligator gar is the largest species of gar and is the largest exclusively freshwater fish in North America. It can be as long as eight to twelve f...

The Cornet fish is a relative small family of fishes that are very elongated and look quite strange when viewed.
They are sometimes called rifle fish because of their looks. When viewed they have a very long snout that is  snout making up a quar...

The Anglerfish always seems to look irritated. To be honest, this deep sea fish does have a right to be somewhat upset since it is very probably the ugliest creature in the world, and lives, completely engulfed in darkness, on the most chilly...

The Sand Shark, which is also known as a sand tiger has a very aggressive and ferocious look. This look is deceptive, with their mouth full of teeth, sharp and sticking out in all different directions. They have large heavy bodies and many tee...

The Blue marlin is a strikingly lovely fish, the largest of the Atlantic Marlin as well as being one of the largest actual fish in the world, with the female, who is much larger than the male, reaching about 14 feet long and weighing in about 190...

The frilled shark, is one of several species of primitive shark, The Southern African frilled shark is a proposed new species from the Southern African range. These two species are very different from other sharks, and it was proposed that...

The Blue Whale is what is known as a baleen whale, a mammal, that can grow up to 110 feet long and weigh about two hundred tons. It is thought to be the largest animal to have ever lived. As tall as a tree if it were stood upright, the blue whale comes...

The tiny Epaulette shark is a relatively new discovery, but one that is unique in its style and method of movement. The "walking" shark, rather than swim around to gather prey, walks across the bottom, using its fins to take it where it wants t...

Goblin shark, scientifically known as Mitsukurina owstoni, is a wacky creature of deep blue sea. Having a soft and flabby body with blade-shaped long snout makes this creature set apart from the rest. It has fang-type teeth with extensive...

One of the most dangerous types of fish are found in the tropical waters around Australia. Called the Cone Shellfish, they are about ten centimeters long with the largest recorded being only about 20 CM long. A cone shellfish uses darts to ki...