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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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