A creature that looks like a slightly altered bird and is named "byrd" is boring, as with a fish creature named "fysh".
The new ones, such as the Slitheen (sort of malign, obese versions of Spielberg's ET), the Ood (take a close look at the head of your prawn, next time you barbecue one), and the Hath (half-human, half-fish creatures), look like guests at a Monsters, Inc fancy-dress party.
The idea of mermaids surfing sounds fishy, mainly because the half-human, half-fish creatures are considered to be strictly mythological.
While Claire is busy trying to be Ariel, a voiceover tells the story of the mythical half-woman half-fish creature.
When palaeontologists discuss fossils from the Devonian period (ca. 416 to 359 mllion years ago, mya), they sometimes refer to the "Age of Fishes", because fish-like creatures represent the most abundant vertebrates of this geological time period (Gradstein et al. 2004).
He's best known for his portraits — which could be taken perhaps for self-portraits — of birds and fish, solitary creatures with eyes fixed in a baleful, mistrustful stare as if alert to trouble approaching.
According to Genesis, on the Fifth Day, God created the birds of the air and fish and creatures of the deep, but we are not shown this.
Upon arrival we were taught to use scuba gear, so that we could breathe underwater and walk around the aquarium en route to viewing the sharks, fish and creatures within the tank.
But Douglas Adams's suggestion that fish-like creatures might provide the key to understanding alien languages might turn out to be true after all.
Thousands of small jelly-fish like creatures have been washing up on shore up and down the Californian coast line this week, carried by the warm currents and the creatures' sail-like fins catching the wind.
Life is discovered on Mars in the shape of fish-lizard creatures called therapsids, although it is not plain how these beasts are able to subsist without any larger ecosystem.
