The lipstick-wearing fish "walks" along the ocean floor, ready for a night out. So long as that night out doesn't involve any ...

A fish has been captured by researchers swimming at never-before-recorded depths of over five miles below the ocean’s surface off the coast of Japan, researchers announced. The unknown species of ...

Each fish-inspired robot uses two wide-angle cameras to look for the LEDs on its companions. Image courtesy of Self-organizing Systems Research Group Researchers at Harvard University have created a ...

Watching fish glide silently around a tank is one of the most relaxing hobbies a person can pick up, but keeping an actual ...

The sea can be a dark and scary place, where survival often depends on not being alone. In the vast, open water, fish rarely swim solo. Instead, they aggregate into schools or shoals as a strategy to ...

Robot-like fish provide insight into how fish can save energy by swimming in schools. Credit: Liang Li, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) Swimming in schools helps fish avoid predators, ...

Fish from the same species can evolve their sense of smell and display individual foraging 'personalities' to successfully find food in different habitats, according to new research. "With more than ...

A new study of giant danios (not pictured) suggests schools of fish save 79 percent more energy in turbulent conditions than fish swimming individually. Gordon Firestein via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind are evidence of a constant give-and-take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment -- a ...

A team of researchers has identified the best arrangements for fish swimming in schools—formations that are superior in terms of saving energy while also optimizing speed. Its findings, which appear ...

In a viral video on Instagram posted by Scienceboy, a dead fish with its body split open and its insides removed is placed into water, where it begins swimming around as if it were alive. This is not ...