In the dark world of the deep sea, being able to discern prey from predator can mean life or death for fish. Now researchers have learned how certain fish adapt and thrive in this harsh environment: ...

Aggressive little male fish from Indonesia turn black when angry to show their dominance, scientists discover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

New research from a team including scientists from the University of Queensland says that the discovery that deep-sea fish can see in color in the dark sheds new light on the evolution of sight in ...

Illustration of the silver spinyfin (Diretmus argenteus)—the vertebrate with the highest number of opsin genes. Image: (Alexandra Viertler, University of Basel) A newly discovered visual system in ...

Nature is harsh. But over time, animals can evolve to adapt to that harshness with stunning methods. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown visual system that may allow color vision in deep, ...

There is near-total darkness at the bottom of the ocean, but some deep-sea fish species have found a way to adjust with superpowered vision. New research, published in the journal Science, reveals ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While people and other vertebrates are color blind in dim light, some deep-sea fish may possess keen color vision to thrive in the near total darkness of their extreme ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Fish living up to 1500 metres below the surface have developed surprisingly diverse vision that could help them determine predator from prey in the dimly-lit depths of their fish-eats-fish world. An ...