Elephant-nose fish need to twist, pace and shimmy to accurately “see” the shapes of objects when interpreting wobbles in electric fields. Peters’s elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is native ...

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 ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On July 11 in the journal Neuron, Columbia ...

Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the elephant nose fish survives by being able to spot predators amongst the muck with a uniquely shaped retina, the part of the eye ...

Fish may be smarter than we thought. Not only can some recognize human faces, but others can use their senses in a way that it was believed only humans and other mammals could manage. A team of ...

People often compare sexual attraction to a jolt of electricity, but in some animals a charged atmosphere is very literal. Male elephant nose fish are known to lure females with the help of an ...

For vertebrates, vision requires a compromise between signals from two types of light-detecting cells: rods and cones. Humans see sharply during the day thanks to a cluster of color-detecting cones in ...

Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the elephant nose fish survives by being able to spot predators among the muck with a uniquely shaped retina, the part of the eye ...

Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the elephant nose fish survives by being able to spot predators amongst the muck with a uniquely shaped retina, the part of the eye ...