Somphong’s rasbora

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

PHOTOGRAPHER SIMON URWIN ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF CAPTURING RAJA AMPAT’S CORAL REEFS FOR OUR OCTOBER ISSUE

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

TO BEGIN THE story of how I came to build a display aquarium in a zoo, we need to go back almost 7 years to when I first encountered these ‘wild’ guppies. I had just started working as an aquarium tec

MOST FISH ARE carnivorous at some level, taking insects and other small prey items even if they otherwise graze on algae or plants. But those that feed primarily on other fish often have behaviours an