SCRANTON – Bright yellow boxfish swam lazily inside their quarantine tank in the aquarium’s back room. They weren’t avoiding the coronavirus. No, the Electric City Aquarium and Reptile Den’s newest ...

SCRANTON – Bright yellow boxfish swam lazily inside their quarantine tank in the aquarium’s back room.They weren’t avoiding the coronavirus. No, the Electric City Aquarium and Reptile Den’s newest ...

The yellow boxfish is much more agile than it looks. By Cara Giaimo The yellow boxfish doesn’t look nimble. Squat and rectangular, it resembles a plastic storage bin with fins. Even its coloring ...

Think the fantastic fish of Finding Nemo were just fiction? The oceans are filled with creatures that defy imagination, and you can see many of them up close at aquariums across the USA. Native to the ...

SCRANTON – Bright yellow boxfish swam lazily inside their quarantine tank in the aquarium’s back room. They weren’t avoiding the coronavirus. The Electric City Aquarium and Reptile Den’s newest ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

On a March day in 2023, Ben Alessio, then a research assistant at CU Boulder, was wandering around the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, California, when he clocked a surprising sight: a male ornate boxfish ...

You can’t deny that some fascinating creatures lurk in our oceans, and some can live in home aquariums. Aquarium oddities are called “oddball fish” among the aquatic hobbyist community, and they ...