In freely swimming fish, we found that the timing (measured as phase difference) between yaw and side-to-side movements of the head increases with swimming speed (Fig. 1a). Simultaneous muscle ...

A fish has been captured by researchers swimming at never-before-recorded depths of over five miles below the ocean’s surface off the coast of Japan, researchers announced. The unknown species of ...

Swimming through turbulent water is easier for schooling fish compared to solitary swimmers, according to a study published June 6 th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Yangfan Zhang of ...

Fish have a sensory system known as the lateral line, which allows them to detect movements, vibrations and pressure gradients in the water. Scientists have now given a robotic fish its own version of ...

A new study of giant danios (not pictured) suggests schools of fish save 79 percent more energy in turbulent conditions than fish swimming individually. Gordon Firestein via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

A rare fish that looks more alien than aquatic washed up in Santa Barbara County, scientists said Wednesday. The mola tecta, or hoodwinker sunfish, has never been seen before in the Northern ...

Several hundred million years ago, fish began to grow limbs that enabled them to walk across the bottom of the water. Modern mammals, including humans, evolved from these fish. But on Wednesday, a ...