ASK A NORTHWESTERNER to pick the creature that epitomizes Puget Sound, and odds are the answer will be orcas or salmon. Ask Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Wayne Palsson, and ...

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 ...

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 Sound ...

The ratfish has a face only a mother could love. Out of respect, we won't catalog his many oddities here, but let's just say his eyes bulge, his face is chubby, and his long tail looks like that of a ...

» The ratfish, a cousin of skates and rays, swims along the bottom of the sound, using its ratlike teeth to crush clams, crabs and worms scooped up from the sand and mud. » Usually brown or black with ...

There may never be a campaign to save the Puget Sound ratfish; no one really loves the ugly fish with rodent-like front teeth. But when a rare albino ratfish was found during a marine survey this past ...

EDMONDS, Wash. — Picture the weirdest fish you can think of. Nope. Weirder. The spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, tops my list. I first saw this cartilaginous monstrosity as a teen. Though ratfish ...