Fish stranded on shore often look helpless, all flops and wriggles. But that clumsy scramble may follow a surprisingly ...

Learn more about a fish-inspired robot and what it can teach us about how animals first left the water and began moving on ...

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could ...

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

Similarities in how different organisms look can indicate a close evolutionary relationship. Conversely, great differences in appearance can suggest a very distant relationship, as in many adult ...

Learn how a small genetic change affects cell communication and reshapes the stripes seen in clownfish. In 1999, a clownfish hatched in a U.K. aquarium with a pattern that didn’t match the usual ...

Scientists have developed a model that predicts six tropical fish species will expand into northern parts of Japan as sea temperatures rise. Scientists have developed a model that predicts six ...

How the leopard got its spots and the zebra its stripes might not be just-so stories much longer. Biologists are beginning to pinpoint the molecular mechanisms animals use to deck themselves out with ...