This moldy pancake is actually the flowery flounder (Bothus mancus), a vivid plane of a fish that expertly changes its color to match its surroundings. The very flat fish’s dorsal (top) side is ...

MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—On the open sand plains of the Caribbean seafloor, where soft-bodied animals are routinely exposed to predators, camouflage can be key to survival. Perhaps no group of animals is ...

Pursuing southern flounder in brackish waters of salt marshes and rivers is a popular pastime in Beaufort County and across South Carolina. But the population of the unusual fish that has two eyes on ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Flounder is one of the most popular species of fish, and you can find them on the menu of nearly any restaurant in our area. That, in spite of the fact that southern flounder ...

Look-alike flounders in the Gulf of Finland are not one but two different species, and the predominant species about thirty years ago has now almost completely disappeared from there. Using flounder ...

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