Deep-diving fish have a problem: The only light that penetrates their watery environment is blue and green hardly enough of a palette for flashy color patterns. Now, a new study reveals these fishes' ...

Biologists have characterized new, unknown photoreceptors from the bioluminescent flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron. The photoreceptors known as opsins allow the fish to detect light with a specific ...

Emily Fobert receives funding for this research from The Fisheries Society of the British Isles and from an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She is affiliated with the conservation ...

Feng-shui friendly fish tank lamps, touted to attract fortune and aid sleep, are becoming popular again in Hanoi and Saigon. Positive beliefs about a fish tank in the bedroom have resurfaced, pushing ...

In the darkest depths of the ocean, where little to no light from the surface penetrates, unusual creatures thrive, many of whom create their own light via bioluminescence to hunt for prey, among ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers have shown in laboratory and field experiments that the animals use these ...

There is a light show in the ocean that you can’t see, but many fish can. There’s quite a display of neon greens, reds, and oranges going on underneath the surface. Still, the discovery of what is ...

New research suggests that exposure to artificial light at night causes guppies to engage in riskier behavior during the day, and that could put them in danger. An animal’s environment is not just ...

Saulius Juodkazis receives funding from ARC. He is a senior nanotechnology fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia. Imagine setting up ...

Scientists at the NIH are mapping the activity of thousands of individual neurons inside the brain of a zebrafish as the animal hunts for food. In a small, windowless room that houses two powerful ...