Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like pectoral ...

An extinct flying fish may shed light on how gliding evolved in such animals, researchers say. Modern flying fish are famous for leaping from the water to glide in the air using long, winglike fins, ...

A flying fish launches itself out of the ocean off the coast of Namibia, trading one predator for another. What the ...

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 fish can launch themselves out of the ocean at over 35 miles per hour to escape hungry predators below, but BBC Earth ...

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 ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a small "aircraft" that resembles a flying fish which can jump and glide over a greater distance than an equivalent jumping robot. Using a carbon ...