Newly Discovered Species of Fish Dubbed H. psychedelica

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 22:49 in Biology & Nature

"Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren, including bouncing like a ball along the seafloor. The new species has rare forward-looking eyes and is described in the journal Copeia.

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