A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine

The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: ...

Key magic mushroom ingredient makes fish less aggressive and lazier

More than 200 mushrooms—primarily those belonging to a genus of gilled mushrooms called Psilocybe—contain the psychoactive ...
Scientific American

Sucker fish are hiding in manta rays’ ‘butthole,’ new study reveals

The practice of “cloacal diving” could help remoras hide from predators—it could also be a feeding strategy or help the fish ...

Magic mushrooms make mean fish lazier and more chill

Psilocybin is the psychoactive compound that puts the “magic” in magic mushrooms. Ingest enough of a fungus like Psilocybe ...
Psychology Today

Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior in which the perpetrator insults, humiliates, and generally instills fear in an individual to control them. The individual's reality may become distorted as ...
Defector

What Are You Doing In There, Fish?

Remoras evolved to be clingy. The suction cup on their foreheads allows them to attach to larger animals like fridge magnets.
Science X Network

Are remoras the ocean's weirdest hitchhikers? These suckerfish invade manta rays in the most intimate of places

Remoras (family Echeneidae) are ray-finned fish that are known to attach themselves to large marine animals, such as whales, ...