By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology.

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 ...

The vast majority of electric fish reside in the weakly electric fish group, and they take advantage of specialized electric organs to produce up to a volt of electricity.

Back in 2016, a scientist from Germany's University of Bonn discovered how the African elephantnose fish can switch between its visual and electrical sensory systems. Now, a team led by that same ...

Male fish can amp up their electric fields to woo females and intimidate rivals, research now reveals. A number of fish can generate electric fields. Relatively few such electric fish pack strong ...

In studying electric fish, researchers noted that a specific section of the gene for sodium channels that determines whether it is expressed in a given cell is missing in electric fish. The research ...

Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.

The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense apparently shows an astonishing similarity to vision, as a study by the ...

A fish that subtracts its own electric signals to better 'see' through its murky habitat Date: July 11, 2018 Source: Cell Press Summary: The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on ...

In many, many ways, fish of the species Brienomyrus brachyistius do not speak at all like Barack Obama. For starters, they communicate not through a spoken language but through electrical pulses ...