Lumpy, but brilliant under UV light. By Annie Roth What color is a lumpfish? The answer is more complicated than you might expect. These bumpy, bottom-dwelling fish, found in the North Atlantic and ...

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The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a funny-looking fish with a round body, bubbly eyes and a mouth agape. But under fluorescent lighting it looks terrifying -- "demonic" even. That's the conclusion Leo ...

Last week I spoke with several lobstermen on the pier and asked them to call me if they pulled up a small lumpfish in their traps. They all said that they hauled them in quite often and would be happy ...

The lumpfish is small. As its name suggests, it's rather lumpy – not streamlined, like the fish that interest most recreational and commercial anglers. It isn’t eaten or harvested in New England.

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Nemo may have just lost his claim to be the world’s cutest fish as the Baby Lumpsucker is staking its claim for the title. Alright, so the name doesn’t exactly scream CUTE, but just look at how tiny!

The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a funny-looking fish with a round body, bubbly eyes and a mouth agape. But under fluorescent lighting, it looks terrifying — “demonic” even. That’s the conclusion Leo ...

The diminutive predator is a terrible swimmer but thrives in the intertidal zone thanks to odd evolutionary adaptation. A Pacific spiny lumpsucker specimen under fluorescent light. Its bony scales ...

Marine Harvest Atlantic Canada reported 12,300 lumpfish deaths on Tuesday. (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) Marine Harvest Atlantic Canada is reporting that higher than normal mortalities were ...