In this stunning YouTube clip, a frogfish bides its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at an unsuspecting cardinal fish. This gives us time to observe it and wonder whether it is a frog or ...

The chances that you’ve ever seen a hairy frogfish before are slim, but they are some of the quickest vertebrate predators in the world for a specific reason. With a strange appearance and extremely ...

The frogfish may be one of the strangest-looking predators in the ocean, but beneath its clumsy appearance lies a weapon ...

Behold the frogfish. This bizarre creature really is a fish, despite its bullfrog face, pectoral fins that look like webbed feet, and a froglike mouth that snaps up unsuspecting prey. But the way it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) feed on crustaceans and fish such as flounder. They use a modified first dorsal fin spine ...

Don’t let their odd looks fool you – frogfish are lightning-fast predators. In this video, we take a closer look at how these masters of camouflage strike with unbelievable speed, snatching prey in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warty frogfish are native to Indo-Pacific coral reefs and often survive at depths of 65 feet in craggy rock ledges. The new ...

"Who is this alien?" is Mashable’s enduring series about the exceptionally peculiar critters that inhabit a relatively small, ocean-dominated world in the outer realms of the Milky Way galaxy, called ...

It’s important to fit in. That seems to be the approach taken by this frogfish, which has turned white to match the bleached coral on which it is living. Warty frogfish (Antennarius maculatus) are ...