Meet the spiny lumpsucker, an unusual new animal at the Newport Aquarium. Their strange name is pretty spot-on as the small fish use a suction cup on their belly to attach to solid surfaces like rocks ...

The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a funny-looking fish with a round body, bubbly eyes and a mouth agape. But under fluorescent lighting it looks terrifying -- "demonic" even. That's the conclusion Leo ...

[Narrator] If you didn't think fish could be cute, first of all, how dare you. Second of all, just look at the spiny lumpsucker. While your typical fish has a streamlined body that cuts neatly through ...

They grow up to 18cm in length and feed on a variety of crustaceans, worms and molluscs. Instead of scales, these spherical fish have plate-like structures with shiny lumps called tubercles. They are ...

Adorably ugly. Funny-looking and awkward. The Seattle Aquarium is not mincing words about a new fish exhibit featuring eight Pacific spiny lumpsuckers. The golf ball-shaped cold-water fish is now on ...

When you think of the aquatic animals that typify the Pacific Northwest, you think of orcas, salmon, and harbor seals. They're our unofficial mascots. And rightfully so! Orcas project mystical ...

It's an unsettling image that seems more suited to a conversation about demonology than one about marine biology. An armor-studded fish skeleton, its empty eye sockets fixed upon observers with a ...

A rare find was swimming deep in the Puget Sound last Wednesday. Phallon Tullis-Joyce will insist it was the Pacific spiny lumpsucker, a bony fish with a suction cup pelvic fin that helps it attach to ...

Photographers trawled the Aquarium of the Pacific looking for perfect shots at the Aquarium of the Pacific's annual photographers' night this October, and the prize-winning catches have now been ...