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 ...

Having a set of extra genes gave fish on separate continents the ability to evolve electric organs, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Harold Zakon and colleagues, in a ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Male fish can amp up their electric fields to woo females and intimidate rivals, research now ...

Besides stunning predators and killing prey, electric fish also use their shocking organ to navigate and communicate in murky waters at nighttime. Some of them can discharge up to 600 volts -- a jolt ...

An electric eel is pictured in this undated handout photo provided by Jason Gallant, Michigan State University. REUTERS/Jason Gallant, Michigan State University/Handout via Reuters By Will Dunham ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On July 11 in the journal Neuron, Columbia ...

The brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) generates a weak electric field that it uses to detect obstacles and to communicate with other knifefish. When confronting a rival knifefish, both ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. Researchers have presented evidence that the ...