Miyazaki City Phoenix Zoo is charming visitors with a flamingo show in which the pink birds actually fly. The Flying Flamingo Show began last spring after the zoo suspended the original one to repair its aged facilities, according to Toshihisa Deguchi, head of the ...

The Antarctic Ocean-dwelling ocellated icefish is an anomaly in the natural world, as the only vertebrate with transparent blood. Icefish have “no hemoglobin that carries oxygen into the blood,” said Naoaki Kawahara, a fish keeper at Tokyo Sea Life Park, the only aquarium in ...

For Kentaro Amemiya of Tokyo Sea Life Park, perspective is everything when dealing with a creature as unusual as the finespotted jawfish. “Here we arrange our exhibitions so that visitors can enjoy observing the fish from four perspectives: swimming, eating, self-defense and breeding,” Amemiya, ...