Among aquarium enthusiasts who keep bettas, it is usually the male fish that are known as the "colorful ones." Oftentimes the males are favored over the females not only for their color, but also ...
Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ...
When Lorian E. Schweikert, Ph.D., reeled in a hogfish on a fishing trip to the Florida Keys, she noticed something strange after setting it down on the deck of the boat. Hogfish are known for their ...
The research maps biofluorescence across 459 glowing fish species and shows just how varied the colors have become.
DEAR NOLA’S MOM: These peppy little fish, also known as Siamese fighting fish are customarily kept as solo pets. The main colors include: blue, red, turquoise, yellow, white and orange — and there are ...
Without a mirror, it can be hard to tell if you're blushing, or have spinach in your teeth. But one color-changing fish has evolved a clever way to keep watch on the parts of itself that lie outside ...
Deep-diving fish have a problem: The only light that penetrates their watery environment is blue and green hardly enough of a palette for flashy color patterns. Now, a new study reveals these fishes' ...
We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red, green, and blue, while dimness or brightness is detected by photoreceptor rods. Many non-mammalian ...
A common aquarium fish has given researchers the inspiration for a new type of color-shifting device (ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b00822). The technology might one day provide soldiers with ...
Fish that have never known sunshine could be able to see the world in shades of blue and green we can’t even imagine. By JoAnna Klein The silver spinyfin, or little dori, inhabits a layer of the deep ...
DURHAM, N.C. -- A few years ago while on a fishing trip in the Florida Keys, biologist Lori Schweikert came face to face with an unusual quick-change act. She reeled in a pointy-snouted reef fish ...
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