Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

Sleep is complicated. And there's still a lot we don't know about it, but zebrafish larvae are a surprisingly good place to ...

Janelia researchers thought that traditional ways of testing learning in larval zebrafish in the lab -- where the conditions were far from what the fish would encounter in the wild -- might not be ...

Aran Nayebi jokes that his robot vacuum has a bigger brain than his two cats. But while the vacuum can only follow a preset ...

Microorganisms are essential for normal social development in zebrafish via their influence on pruning of neural connections in the developing brain, according to a new study. Microorganisms are ...

The zebrafish serves as a model organism for researchers around the world: it can be used to study important physiological processes that also take place in a similar form in the human body. It is ...