Many people just found out that flashlight fish exist, thanks to the viral tweet below. The glowing fish have lights under their eyes that blink on and off. But it turns out that there’s even more ...

In an effort to decipher their Morse code-like blinking pattern, Jens Hellinger of Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, the principal author of the study, and his team analyzed a school of flashlight ...

If you're hunting for food on a pitch-black night, it helps to bring a flashlight. That's exactly how reef-dwelling Anomalops katoptron fish find and gobble up their planktonic prey, German scientists ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers have shown in laboratory and field experiments that the animals use these ...

The flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic prey, according to a new study. The flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic ...

At slightly less than two inches long, triplefin fish don’t seem like much of a threat. But as new research shows, these aquatic carnivores have a rare organ that turns their eyes into veritable ...

The splitfin flashlight fish has a built-in light that it can turn into its very own stroboscope. Now researchers may have figured out what they use it for. If you hunt in the dark, it helps to carry ...

The triplefin fish has "ocular sparks" which catch light and reflect it outwards. Nico K. Michiels, Uni Tübingen/Royal Society Open Science Life in the deep reaches of the oceans often takes on ...

The flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic prey, according to a study published February 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jens Hellinger from Ruhr ...