Most fish rely primarily on their vision to find prey to feed upon, but a University of Rhode Island biologist and her colleagues have demonstrated that a group of African cichlids feeds by using its ...

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Scientists, led by University of Bristol, have been studying a fish sensory organ to understand cues for collective behaviour which could be employed on underwater robots. This work was centred around ...

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When you think about it, fish can do some pretty remarkable things. They can find prey in murky water, travel in tightly-packed schools without colliding, they always know what depth they’re at, and ...

In a ground-floor laboratory just off Washington Square Park, in New York, a shoal of black polyurethane fish sat in an open cardboard box. According to their keeper, Leif Ristroph, an assistant ...

Marine biologists say sharks cannot use just their noses to locate prey; they also need their skin -- specifically a location called the lateral line. Sharks are known to have a keen sense of smell, ...

When brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) transition into small fish capable of swimming and leaving their gravel nests in the rivers of North America, they face numerous survival challenges. They must ...