Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating and adapting to an average direction of the group, a group of scientists co-led by UNSW has shown. In a ...

The sea can be a dark and scary place, where survival often depends on not being alone. In the vast, open water, fish rarely swim solo. Instead, they aggregate into schools or shoals as a strategy to ...

Schools of fish are able to pull off complex, coordinated maneuvers without ever colliding with one another. They move in unison but don't follow a leader. To try and understand the intricacies of ...

Sometimes less is more. Researchers accurately modeled dynamic fish schooling by incorporating the tendency of fish to focus on a single visual target instead of the whole school, as well as other ...

Blind fish called the Mexican tetra use a language of clicking sounds to communicate and it turns out each group has a different accent. Every group of Mexican tetra fish speaks with a different ...