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

The remora is a fascinating fish, not least because of a strong suction cup-like structure on the back of its head, allowing it to latch onto larger animals for protection and transport. Now ...

Researchers offer new insight into the evolution of the suction ability of remora fishes, showcasing a bioinspired suction disk that mimics, and can exceed, the fish's uncanny powers of adhesion.

There is always a colleague from the company next door who hitches a ride during my commute. He brings along cheap sandwiches to share for breakfast. Nature also has its own annoying free riders, such ...

When the host creature feeds, the remora temporarily detaches itself from them to gobble up the waterborne scraps. Like the remora's natural disc, the drone's synthetic version isn't just one big ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." If you've ever ...

A new study provides details of the structure and tissue properties of the unique adhesion system used by remora fish to attach themselves to sharks and other marine animals. The information could ...

The little fish, also known as a remoras, are hitchhikers who traverse the oceans by latching onto larger marine animals like ...

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The remora is so ridiculous that no one would try to make it up. The top of its head is a giant, flat suction cup. It uses the cup to lock onto the bodies of bigger animals, such as sharks, sea ...

Remora fishes are famed hitchhikers of the marine world, possessing high-powered suction disks on the back of their head for attaching themselves in torpedo-like fashion to larger hosts that can ...