Five minutes in the life of a guppy, in the terrible spring of 2015: You’re swimming around with your friends in a tank. You’ve been here for days. Food falls from the sky. Everything is fine. Then ...

Guppies can be fooled by optical illusions into believing objects are smaller or larger than they really are. This suggests they might not always make the best choices in their natural environment.

For female guppies, there’s more to life than making babies. A new study finds that guppies experience menopause just like humans and other animals. The study is the first demonstration of menopause ...

The guppy studied is the tiny fish in the bottom-left corner. Also shown are the two predators researchers used to stress the guppy out: a heron and a blue acara cichlid. The guppy studied is the tiny ...

Trinidadian guppy fish have varying levels of self-control, scientists have found (University of Exeter/PA) Just like humans trying to stick to New Year’s resolutions, guppies have varying levels of ...

Are you thinking of keeping fish as pets but don’t know where to start? Take a look at two of the most popular choices for beginners - Guppy fish and Swordtail fish. Here are the reasons why these ...

Larvae-eating guppy fish can help combat the spread of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness giving rise to hundreds of thousands of severe cases including 20,000 deaths worldwide every year. Larvae-eating ...

It was a congregation of guppy fish lovers in Pollachi recently. The occasion was a national level competition for guppy fish for which around 40 varieties of guppies were on display. Dinesh Kumar, ...

Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease characterized by shaking chills, high fever, anemia and flu-like illnesses, caused the death of approximately 627,000 people worldwide in 2012. Although preventable, ...

When Robert Heathcote dips his head into the rivers of Trinidad, he’ll often see little black dots moving through the water, even when it’s murky. Those dots are the eyes of small, inch-long fish ...