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 ...

Flashlight fish (Anomalops katoptron). The torch-like organ can be seen under its eye. (D. Gruber, 2019) (CN) – While most fish tend to disperse in dark waters, scientists have discovered 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds, if not thousands, of small flashlight fish—glowing blue—began emerging from the underwater cave. They streamed over the reef “like a carpet of lights,” says Phillips. Their illumination was ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown in laboratory and field experiments ...

Biologists have characterized new, unknown photoreceptors from the bioluminescent flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron. The photoreceptors known as opsins allow the fish to detect light with a specific ...