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 ...

What is the origin of the ancestors of present-day fish? What species evolved from them? A 50-year-old scientific controversy revolved around the question of which group, the 'bony-tongues' or the ...

Researchers questioned if coordinated group movements by animals moving through a fluid could reduce the energy cost of locomotion. By combining biomechanics and bioenergetics the researchers found ...