Fishy Facts

Ringed KingfisherMegaceryle torquata Common in the American tropics, the ringed kingfisher was considered rare north of Mexico until the 1960s....

South Texas has three coexisting kingfishers in the winter, when the medium-sized belted kingfisher arrives to join the small green...

The stargazers are a family of fish characterized by eyes on the top of their heads. There are about 50...

Whale sharks are the world’s largest living fish species. They hail from the order of carpet sharks, Orectolobiformes – a...

Reaching up to five feet in height, and with a seven-foot wingspan, whooping cranes are the tallest birds in North...

Reaching just over ten feet, sailfish are one of the smaller members of the billfish family. Their most identifying characteristic...

Ospreys are large, distinctively shaped hawks whose diet and affinity for coastlines have earned them the nicknames “sea hawk” and...

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and...

Few invertebrates from land or sea play the sinister role as often as the spider. Luckily for arachnophobes, sea spiders...

Sea hare is the common name for a large group of herbivorous sea slugs in Anaspidea, an order consisting of...