If you want to thrive in the dark, gloomy ocean depths then it certainly doesn't hurt to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Scientists have discovered two new species of fish that can expand an ...

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

An intriguing new study is offering insights into the origins of sleep, for the first time discovering zebrafish brains shift through several brain states while sleeping. The researchers suggest these ...

Scientists have developed a model that predicts six tropical fish species will expand into northern parts of Japan as sea temperatures rise. A new study forecasts how global climate change will affect ...

How the leopard got its spots and the zebra its stripes might not be just-so stories much longer. Biologists are beginning to pinpoint the molecular mechanisms animals use to deck themselves out with ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

If you’ve seen one damselfish, you’ve seen them all. That may be true for people, who have a difficult time telling some damselfish species apart. But the fish themselves see it differently, according ...

Using state-of-the-art robotics, a research team shows that animals' speed is fundamental for collective behavioral patterns, and that ultimately it is the faster individuals that have the strongest ...