When you hear the term ‘electric fish,’ the first thing that probably comes to mind is the infamous electric eel. It’s an aquatic animal capable of stunning nearby threats with a powerful electric ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature, scientists have discovered that the African weakly electric fish, Gnathonemus ...

A new study published in Science Advances explores the unique evolutionary processes among certain genes in certain fish species that allowed them to develop electric organs (think: the electric eel).

UCSB scientist Milton Love teamed up with South African artist Jessica Eggers to create this beautifully bizarre book.

African fish called mormyrids communicate using pulses of electricity. New research shows that a time-shifted signal in the brain helps the fish to ignore their own pulse. This skill has co-evolved ...

Source: Courtesy of Jacob Engelmann. The African elephant-nose fish ( Gnathonemus petersii) is nocturnal and lives in murky lakes and rivers. It makes its way through its environment, avoiding ...

In many, many ways, fish of the species Brienomyrus brachyistius do not speak at all like Barack Obama. For starters, they communicate not through a spoken language but through electrical pulses ...