Electric fish are some of the most extraordinary creatures that live on this planet, and while ghost knifefish might not be the most deadly of these bright sparks, they do set their own records. They ...

Biologists Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez and Christopher P. J. Sanford at Kennesaw State University have discovered that black ghost knifefish can create suction with enough speed and power to make water ...

Researchers at Northwestern University are developing robot fish to help them better understand movement systems and how they work with sensory systems. By experimenting with robots that move like ...

It has long been assumed that when one brown ghost knifefish “chirps” at another knifefish by altering the electrical field it produces, it is communicating with the other fish. But it appears that ...

The weakly electric black ghost knifefish of the Amazon basin has inspired Northwestern University's Malcolm MacIver and an interdisciplinary team of researchers to develop agile fish robots that ...

So what do you get when you put together a tank full of black ghost knife fish, some audio equipment, and a bunch of crazy people? A fish chorus. Black ghost knife fish, which would totally be an ...

The black ghost knifefish of the Amazon basin takes advantage of its adaptations in several ways that are interesting-not just to the casual reader, but also to scientists interested in developing new ...

This is a juvenile of the brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

There’s been a new breakthrough in submarine technology and it has nothing to do with either stealth, sonar, or design. It’s a flexible underwater fin whose mechanics were derived from a species of ...

Biologists Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez and Christopher P. J. Sanford at Kennesaw State University have discovered that black ghost knifefish can create suction with enough speed and power to make water ...