To escape predators beneath the waves, a flying fish can shoot out of the water and glide long distances because its paired pectoral and pelvic fins, longer and more rigid than those of other fish, ...

How well do flying fish fly? This is the question that puzzled researchers in South Korea. Measuring aerodynamic forces on dried darkedged-wing flying fish in a wind tunnel, they discovered that ...

Flying fish are certainly one of the most unbelievable sights on the open ocean, but they do exist. In fact, some sort of flying fish or another have been skipping over the waves for the past 200 ...

Flying fish belong to the family Exocoetidae, which means in Latin, “fish that sleeps on the shore.” The family contains about 60 flying fish species that live about 5 years and use special ray-shaped ...

Flying robots hold all kinds of promise when operating over dry land, but what could ones that use bodies of water as a base bring to the table? With an eye on water sampling and environmental ...

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The first flying fish may have evolved to escape marine reptile predators, researchers say. These new findings hint that marine life may have recovered more quickly than before thought after the ...