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 ...

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 ...

London, Nov 26 (ANI): Female elephant nose fish gets sexually 'charged up' by the electric aura of males of their own kind over the spark of closely related species, according to lab experiments. For ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On July 11 in the journal Neuron, Columbia ...

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 ...

People often compare sexual attraction to a jolt of electricity, but in some animals a charged atmosphere is very literal. Male elephant nose fish are known to lure females with the help of an ...

Presbyopia is a common visual condition, in which the eye's lens stiffens to the point that it can't focus on close objects. Glasses, surgery and regular contact lenses do help, but they also cause a ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. Researchers have presented evidence that the ...