When it comes to a great optical illusion we always take the bait, because we can’t help but be lured in by a talented artist with a cool hook. That’s why we like to cast a wide net over the Internet: ...

DRAPER — Utah students, families and others are starting to wind through a replicated corner of the Amazon, simulate hikes through jungle fog and cozy up to hulking shark tanks at a new aquarium in ...

I’m a believer in connecting the dots, even if they are years apart. Two dots struck me this week, essays that argue for deep observation. One, written in 1873, sounds eerily like another, written in ...

STAR-ADVERTISER / 2010 star-advertiser / 2010 Proposed state rules would allow a person with a commercial aquarium fish permit to take a daily bag limit of no more than 100 yellow tangs, which ...

ATLANTA -- -- ATLANTA -- Vikas Chinnan stood over a tank at the world's largest aquarium, peering down at the world's largest fish species. He was wondering what it would be like to jump in and frolic ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific may finally get a direct line to the ocean. For years the Long Beach attraction has filled its complex of fish tanks and marine habitats with saltwater delivered by tanker ...

What do you do with a bizarre-looking dead fish that’s missing an eyeball and could be mistaken, at a distance, for a monster rattlesnake? If you’re the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, you preserve the ...

MURORAN, Hokkaido—Visitors from around Japan and overseas continue to flow into the municipal Muroran Aquarium here for a look at Satsuki, a seal that bangs on a plastic pail to beg for food. In early ...

The newly opened Mississippi Aquarium packs more than 200 species into its exhibits, but what stands out isn’t the sheer variety of its inhabitants. It’s the way it puts visitors among them. Boasting ...