Fish that use electric fields to sense their environments dim their signals to save energy during the day when they are resting. Sternopygus macrurus, a South American river fish, is a natural ...

Some electric fish in Africa have different communication patterns and won't mate with each other, although their DNA is the same, find Cornell scientists. They think the fish are living examples of a ...

When you hear the term ‘electric fish,’ the first thing that probably comes to mind is the infamous electric eel. It’s an aquatic animal capable of stunning nearby threats with a powerful electric ...

An electric eel is pictured in this undated handout photo provided by Jason Gallant, Michigan State University. REUTERS/Jason Gallant, Michigan State University/Handout via Reuters By Will Dunham ...

Evolution has bequeathed to the glass knifefish some nifty talents. With an elongated ribbon fin that runs nearly the length of its body, the fish hovers, moves forward, and reverses using a subtle ...

The brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) generates a weak electric field that it uses to detect obstacles and to communicate with other knifefish. When confronting a rival knifefish, both ...

It would be a game-changer if all members of a basketball team could see out of each other's eyes in addition to their own. Biologists have found evidence that this kind of collective sensing occurs ...

Electric fish exhibit a highly specialised sensory modality that utilises self‐generated electric fields to navigate, forage and communicate in turbid aquatic environments. Their electrosensory ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

Writing June 27, 2014 in the journal Science, a team of researchers led by Michael Sussman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harold Zakon of the University of Texas at Austin and Manoj Samanta ...

Despite nearly indistinguishable outward physical appearances, the electric discharge signals of two newly discovered species of closely related fishes are quite different. Both electric fish belong ...