Hundreds, if not thousands, of small flashlight fish—glowing blue—began emerging from the underwater cave. They streamed over the reef “like a carpet of lights,” says Phillips. Their illumination was ...

Many people just found out that flashlight fish exist, thanks to the viral tweet below. The glowing fish have lights under their eyes that blink on and off. But it turns out that there’s even more ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown in laboratory and field experiments ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers have shown in laboratory and field experiments that the animals use these ...

Bignose unicornfish (Naso vlamingii) are an Indo-Pacific reef species known for their blue markings. They can quickly hide these markings if needed. “We are sharing those color stories to show all the ...

The quest to document an ancient sea creature reveals a cyclical chorus of fish songs. Will this year’s Nobel Prizes go to GLP-1 research, optogenetics, or something else? Researchers picked their ...