Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a Mexico-based shark researcher, has spent the past week diving in the Bahamas and sharing his adventures via social media. On Friday, Hoyos Padilla shared a misadventure ...

The red lionfish are indigenous to the west Pacific Ocean, but they're starting to pop up off the Texas coast. It's believed that the takeover started in Florida when aquarium owners released them ...

Students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are helping to combat a major environmental threat by designing an autonomous underwater robot that can hunt for invasive lionfish. Using a ...

Teresa Hattaway, owner of Jim’s Dive Shop in St. Petersburg, knows first hand how painful a sting from a lionfish can be. “I would say it was worse than a hundred bee stings at one time,” Hattaway ...

Lionfish, meet moray eel. Then, better get ready to meet your maker. This ghoulish guy is tough-as-nails, no-nonsense, the rogue of the reef, just nasty. But the spotted moray eel has a saving grace: ...

Derick Wade of The Darling Oyster Bar admits he was a little freaked out the first time he cooked red lionfish, a large venomous and predatory species roaming the Atlantic Ocean near the South ...

June 1 (UPI) --Scientists have identified a new species of fish in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, video footage suggests invasive lionfish discovered the species first. Film shows the newly named ember ...

Venomous, invasive lionfish have been spotted swarming around a World War Two shipwreck off North Carolina. The findings came during an expedition undertaken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. Brazil’s coastal waters teem with a rich array of species that paint a living tapestry beneath the waves. This underwater world is particularly ...