The Pacific hagfish is an eel-like creature Gina Kelly/Alamy Hagfish produce copious quantities of slime…
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Zebrafish seem to be able to count when they are just four days old
Zebrafish seem to have numerical talents at a really early age blickwinkel / Alamy Stock…
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Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back from bleaching events
Farmerfish are territorial and defend their algae gardens ArteSub/Alamy Fish that have a tendency patches…
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Ghost catfish get their rainbow iridescence from transparent muscles
Iridescent ghost catfish Nan Shi, Xiujun Fan, and Genbao Wu. We now know the way…
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Influenza viruses may have originated in fish 600 million years ago
A flu virus present in a Siberian sturgeon has a genetic sequence shut that of…
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Ancient fish thought to be larger than sharks was actually quite short
Dunkleosteus terrelli was an armoured predator fish with bladed jaws as a substitute of tooth…
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Ghost knifefish make electric ‘chirps’ to spot where other fish are
It’s lengthy been thought that {the electrical} chirps of brown ghost knifefish are for communication,…
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Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with invasive rats
Around rat-infested tropical islands within the Indian Ocean, jewel damselfish change their behaviour as a…
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Fish see in the dark thanks to extra layers of rod cells in their eyes
Visual checks in nocturnal coral fish reveal how a number of layers of rod cells…