PALISADE, Colo. (CBS4) Think of the bottom feeder sucker fish in a tank, lips suctioned to the glass, cleaning an aquarium nonstop. Now make that fish 3 to 4 feet long, possibly 30+ pounds, and ...

Parsa Saffarinia, 24, Brian Wang, 20, and Perry Lau, 21, all students from UC Riverside, try to catch Santa Ana sucker fish. ... thick lips and small mouths to vacuum up algae and other organisms.

On the heels of Valentine’s Day this week, I was thinking of how silly it is that when we humans try to make a kissy face, we often end up sucking our cheeks in to make fish lips. And yet, most ...

Razorback sucker fish that once thrived in the Colorado River have fallen victim over the past 50 years to dams, development and voracious non-native predators that ate them nearly to extinction.

Suckers are long-lived fish: an adult C’waam can exceed 10 pounds and live for half a century. They look almost comical, with their fleshy, protruding lips, ...

Well-studied butterfly fish, for example, use their long, thin snouts to nip up coral ... Video footage of L. australis shows that the fish feeds by latching onto coral with its lips and sucking.

After years spent raising hundreds of razorback sucker fish, they've become Palisade High School's unofficial mascot. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app. Download the 9NEWS app ...

Most people may not have heard of the Zuni bluehead sucker. But unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service takes urgent action, this endangered fish will go extinct. So, it’s troubling that new ...

Utah Department of Natural Resources biologist Andrew Nagy and his colleagues search for June sucker fish in a small pond next to Hobble Creek in Springville on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.