While gobies aren't the only fish with camouflage abilities, new research shows that their colour change is influenced by their social context: they transform faster and better when alone. This is ...

Sargassum pipefish, relatives of seahorses, are masters of camouflage, resembling the seaweed they inhabit. These fish are pelagic, living in the open ocean attached to sargassum, and are found in the ...

A team of scientists have figured out how deep sea fish manage to essentially disappear from sight in order to evade predators. A new paper describes how several fish can absorb almost all light ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Goths ...

Physicist Helen Czerski explores the complex science behind familiar phenomena. Read more columns here. When you sit down to eat fish, the silvery skin glittering on the platter hardly looks like ...

Deep-sea fish have evolved ultra-black skin to absorb nearly all light, rendering them invisible to predators that use ...

It’s like a half-hearted dress up party: gobies don’t camouflage completely in groups, new research finds. They change colour to avoid detection by predators and do so faster and better when alone. In ...