PHOTO CAPTION: Male freshwater fish, such as these sunfish, guard nests (the light-colored circles) of their eggs against predators and other males. New genetic information by Purdue Assistant ...

DESCRIPTION: The spring pygmy sunfish is a small freshwater fish, shorter than two inches in length. Breeding males are usually dark brown, with silver or gold vertical stripes, while females are ...

When the sunfish began looking unwell days after the aquarium closed on Dec. 1 for a six-month renovation, its keepers suspected digestive problems, gave it less food and visited the fish tank to ...

This fish is now limited to just one population living in a five-mile stretch of Beaverdam Creek. The spring pygmy sunfish faces a long list of specific threats, including degradation of water quality ...

Miyazawa was well aware of the sunfish’s friendly nature. As soon as it arrived at Kaikyokan from waters off Kochi Prefecture in February last year, the fish began displaying an interest in humans.

A lonely sunfish does seem unlikely, the aquarium said, but it added that this fish is curious and would swim up to the front of its tank whenever people came to visit. But once visitors stopped ...

The best places to fish in Brigantine are north of 14th Street north (up to the State Park boundary), 45th to 47th Streets, ...