As a result of those genetic changes, the fish took tiny protein motors that typically make muscles contract and repurposed them to generate electric signals in a new organ. These proteins and their ...

Electric organs help electric fish, such as the electric eel, do all sorts of amazing things: They send and receive signals that are akin to bird songs, helping them to recognize other electric fish ...

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 ...

Electric fish pause before sharing something particularly meaningful. Pauses also prime the sensory systems to receive new and important information, according to new research. American writer and ...

The brain cells you see in the above image help an African fish decode electric signals to spot prey, scan its murky ...

Avoiding quicksand along the banks of the Ivindo River in Gabon, Cornell neurobiologists armed with oscilloscopes search for shapes and patterns of electricity created by fish in the water. They know ...

Electric fish pause before sharing something particularly meaningful. Pauses also prime the sensory systems to receive new and important information. The study reveals an underlying mechanism for how ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Deep in the night in muddy African rivers, a fish uses electrical charges to sense the world around it and communicate with other members of its species. Signaling in electrical spurts ...

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 ...

Small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs, according to a new study. The finding might also help scientists pinpoint genetic mutations behind some human diseases. Electric ...