#Fish

JJ Shavit

Fish can do math, study finds

Cichlids and stingrays can perform simple addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five as shown in a recent study.

JJ Shavit

Sharks take naps with their eyes open!

It turns out these predators love to grab a nap when there’s nothing going on and some actually sleep with their eyes wide open!

JJ Shavit

Biohybrid fish made from heart muscle cells swims and could lead to artificial hearts

Researchers have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells.

JJ Shavit

Researchers discover how eating fish protects our brains from air pollution

Older women who eat more than one to two servings a week of baked or broiled fish or shellfish may counteract the effects of air pollution.

JJ Shavit

Researchers discover that fish talk a lot and have been for over 155 million years

Fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought—and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years.

JJ Shavit

Lighted nets shown to dramatically reduce wildlife bycatch while making fishing more efficient

Researchers have found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish.

JJ Shavit

World's largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, researchers found the world's largest fish breeding area known.

JJ Shavit

Fish can count according to new research on Banded Archerfish

A trio of researchers at the University of Trento, in Italy, has found via experimentation that archerfish can distinguish between numbers.

JJ Shavit

Robots use fear to turn the tide against invasive fish species

Researchers engineered a robot to scare mosquitofish away, revealing how fear alters its behavior, physiology and fertility.

Joshua Shavit

Meet the fish guarding genetic secrets that can unravel humanity’s evolution

As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity’s evolution

JJ Shavit

Flying fish! State re-stocks southern Utah lakes from the air

We've all heard of flying fish, but thousands of juvenile trout took a nosedive from an airplane as part of efforts to replenish lakes