Ever dreamed of swimming with the ocean's biggest creatures? Picture yourself surrounded by sea giants, moving smoothly ...

In a viral video on Instagram posted by Scienceboy, a dead fish with its body split open and its insides removed is placed into water, where it begins swimming around as if it were alive. This is not ...

In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more about strategy. Take, for example, the tripod fish, a creature that can swim ...

New simulations show that fish look downward when they swim because the stable riverbed below them provides more reliable information about their swimming direction and speed. Just as you might look ...

Swimming in schools has massive energy-saving benefits for fish. A study in “water tunnels” has found that fish use half as much energy swimming at high speeds if they are in a school rather than ...

The blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, is considered an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit - forgotton0001. CC SA 2.0. The blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, is considered an invasive ...

A new study of giant danios (not pictured) suggests schools of fish save 79 percent more energy in turbulent conditions than fish swimming individually. Gordon Firestein via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

Daniel Quinn receives funding from The National Science Foundation and The Office of Naval Research. Underwater vehicles haven’t changed much since the submarines of World War II. They’re rigid, ...

Just as you might look down at the sidewalk as you walk, fish look downward when they swim, a new study by a Northwestern University-led international collaboration has confirmed. The study is the ...