Electric fish exhibit a unique evolutionary adaptation that enables them to generate and perceive electric fields, providing a compelling model for exploring sensory ecology, neurobiology, and ...

Anglers and scientists found a “weakly electric” creature in a river of Mozambique and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Roger Bills via Dierickx, Lunkayilakio, Bills and Vreven (2024 ...

It would be a game-changer if all members of a basketball team could see out of each other's eyes in addition to their own. Biologists have found evidence that this kind of collective sensing occurs ...

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The sperm of the mormyrid wealy electric fish is the only known vertebrate species that lacks flagellum. Panel A shows a light microscope image of a sperm sample: the sperm are completely immotile.

In a breakthrough study published in Nature, scientists have discovered that the African weakly electric fish, Gnathonemus petersii, can harness the electrical pulses of nearby fish to sharpen its ...

Neuroscientist Nathan Sawtell has spent a lot of time studying a funky looking electric fish characterized by its long nose. The Gnathonemus petersii, or elephantnose fish, can send and decipher weak ...

It has long been assumed that when one brown ghost knifefish “chirps” at another knifefish by altering the electrical field it produces, it is communicating with the other fish. But it appears that ...

Scientists uncover evidence for a new form of collective sensing that appears to enable elephantnose fish to extend their perceptual reach NEW YORK, NY — It would be a game-changer if all members of a ...