A controversial Middlesex County aquarium is a step closer to shutting down. The state Department of Environmental Protection sent a letter to SeaQuest Woodbridge on Jan. 31 notifying the aquarium ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ailing. Almost as soon as the ...

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana kicked off 2025 with a mysterious birth. A swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup hatched at the facility on January 3, yet the two female sharks present ...

An aquarium in Japan thought its sunfish might be lonely. Then they figured out a way to keep it company ...

An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish, who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank ...

If you already thought sea otters were cute, wait till you hear them squeaking. Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see ...

Having an aquarium full of freshwater fish at home is beautiful. Keeping an aquarium in your home benefits your health like reducing stress and lowering blood pressure. Freshwater tanks are easier to ...

Wait, fish don’t get lonely. Or do they? It’s difficult to know for sure, but one aquarium in Japan seems to think, in fact, they just might. The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, southern ...

But at least one of them seems to appreciate a little company. In Japan, an ocean sunfish appeared “lonely” after its aquarium shut down for renovations, staff said—so they created human cut ...