From salmon and sea stars to public lands and policy shifts, Salish Current’s environmental coverage revealed both the ...

To say spotted ratfish are unusual is an understatement. Related to sharks, they abound in the inky dark depths of the Puget Sound. Armed with a venomous fin, they swim gracefully along the sea floor ...

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The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern adult male spotted ratfish. This fossil record helped them establish the historical significance of this structure, ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. It's not easy to have sex when you're a couple of slippery, limbless fish in the ocean. But the ...

There’s no shame at all in having problems in the bedroom, but ‘sorry, my forehead teeth won’t get up,’ might be a new one. Male ratfish, also called ghost sharks, live in the depths of the ...

The next time you don’t want to go to the dentist, just be glad you’re not growing teeth from a structure on your forehead. That’s an everyday reality for spotted ratfish, according to a new study.

A study in the Journal of Morphology shows how the bizarre prehistoric ratfish called a Helicoprion ate with its unique set of choppers. A Helicoprion was a prehistoric ratfish that featured perhaps ...

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...

EDMONDS, Wash. — Picture the weirdest fish you can think of. Nope. Weirder. The spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, tops my list. I first saw this cartilaginous monstrosity as a teen. Though ratfish ...