A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal kingdom. Here’s how.

The Intelligence of Bettas The predictability of the Betta Fish’s behavior sets up an excellent experimental baseline from ...

Move over, chimpanzees — there's a new brainiac in town, and this one has gills. A species of aquarium fish has a surprisingly long memory — it can recall the location of a tasty morsel of food up to ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi as alternatives, animal-rights activists have launched a novel campaign arguing that fish — contrary to stereotype — are intelligent, sensitive animals no ...

Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture conditions, are the most ...

It’s not only people that get woozy from heat, according to new research. If you’re living on a reef full of predators, that mental fog could be deadly. By Rebecca Dzombak Warmer seas could be making ...