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

To find buried prey, the elephantnose fish senses tiny electric fields while firing its own pulses. A brain map shows how neurons filter them out.

The brain cells help an African fish decode electric signals to spot prey, scan its murky surroundings and communicate with its fellows.

Some fish can deliver electric shocks that are four times more powerful than the electricity in your plug sockets at home.

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 ...

The electric eel is one of the most startling animals in fresh water, able to deliver a jolt powerful enough to stun a horse ...

The brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) generates a weak electric field that it uses to detect obstacles and to communicate with other knifefish. When confronting a rival knifefish, both ...

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. Biologists have found evidence that this kind of collective sensing occurs ...

Fish that use electric fields to sense their environments dim their signals to save energy during the day when they are resting. Sternopygus macrurus, a South American river fish, is a natural ...

A new study explains how small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs. The finding might also help scientists pinpoint the genetic mutations behind some human diseases.