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 ...

Bignose unicornfish (Naso vlamingii) are an Indo-Pacific reef species known for their blue markings. They can quickly hide ...

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 ...

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 ...

The flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic prey, according to a study published February 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jens Hellinger from Ruhr ...

The deep sea is nature's engineering department. The creatures that live in the briny deep have adapted some amazing ways of surviving and thriving in their extreme habitat. Like this species: ...

The quest to document an ancient sea creature reveals a cyclical chorus of fish songs. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to ...