Ratfish keep such a low profile few people have heard of them — and fewer still have ever seen one. But with an estimated 200 million at home in Puget Sound, that’s more than 30 rats for every ...

A prehistoric ratfish with buzzsaw-like teeth on its lower jaw puzzled scientists. But new research sheds light on how the creature caught and ate its prey.

Helicoprion had saws for jaws. That’s really all there was to the 270 million year old ratfish’s dental cutlery. No upper teeth or anything else to slice against – just an ever-growing whorl ...

For so long, it seemed that the object of his endless fascination was a shark, but now, Troll says, “It’s really cool to have [Helicoprion] circle back around” to the ratfish side of the ...

I encountered my first ratfish years ago in about 20 feet of water near the docks at Seattle’s Shilshole Bay Marina. I had never seen, or heard, of one before, but there was no mistaking that it ...

Jon Reum was sick of ratfish. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent five straight days hauling up nets loaded with the slimy bottom dwellers as part of a marine survey in Puget ...

The ratfish is now floating in a jar of alcohol, the only pure albino among the 7.2 million specimens in the UW’s fish collection. The Spokesman-Review Newspaper Local journalism is essential.

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...

Sports; Outdoors; CaughtOvgard: Ratfish, the weirdest fish around Fri., May 8, 2020 The author, Luke Ovgard, is pictured here with a ratfish. Though ratfish aren't going to win any beauty contests ...

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught in Washington state's Puget Sound is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught in Washington state's Puget Sound is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...