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 ...

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 ...

Photonic crystals, parabolic mirrors help the fish evade predators in the murk. Elephant-nosed fish also have another adaptation that helps them get around in murky waters: they produce a weak ...

It would be a game-changer if all members of a basketball team could see out of each other's eyes in addition to their own. A research duo at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute has found evidence that ...

This photograph shows the elephant-nose fish's neural circuit that encodes the negative images used in navigation and hunting. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

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