Source: Courtesy of Jacob Engelmann. The African elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is nocturnal and lives in murky lakes and rivers. It makes its way through its environment, avoiding ...

Elephant-nose fish need to twist, pace and shimmy to accurately “see” the shapes of objects when interpreting wobbles in electric fields. Peters’s elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is native ...

Source: Courtesy of Jacob Engelmann. The African elephant-nose fish ( Gnathonemus petersii) is nocturnal and lives in murky lakes and rivers. It makes its way through its environment, avoiding ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On July 11 in the journal Neuron, Columbia ...

Back in 2016, a scientist from Germany's University of Bonn discovered how the African elephantnose fish can switch between its visual and electrical sensory systems. Now, a team led by that same ...

This photograph shows the elephant-nose fish's neural circuit that encodes the negative images used in navigation and hunting. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

After hearing the recent shocking news that the African elephant-nose fish possesses a “bigger” brain than we human beings-as determined by the percentage of the body’s total oxygen intake that is ...