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 ...

Artificial light at night also makes guppies more courageous during the day, according to a new behavioral study. Artificial light at night also makes guppies more courageous during the day, according ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Bobbing along on the research vessel Western Flyer just outside California’s Monterey Bay, marine biologist Karen Osborn and her colleagues were hauling deep-sea fish to the surface for cataloging and ...

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 ...

Two newly discovered species of deep sea fish have a fire in their belly. Well, not literally, but that's what it looks like. The fish, which are both in a group commonly called mirrorbellies or ...

Scientists have discovered more than 180 species of biofluorescent fish that glow in neon shades of blue, red, orange and green -- most of them hiding out in tropical coral reefs. Some of the fish ...

Coral reefs are full of flamboyantly colored creatures. But a new study finds that even the more subtly hued camouflaged species hiding in nooks and crannies have their gaudy side. You just have to ...