Researchers have a new idea about why fish swim in schools. Turns out when fish swim together in turbulent water, they use nearly 80% less energy. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Yangfan Zhang studies animal ...

A viral video of dead fish swimming is given a scientific explanation. After death, the spinal cord and nerves can still trigger muscle contractions briefly. Muscles retain stored energy (ATP) that ...

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish. Engineers working with a high-tech simulation of schooling mackerel offer new insight ...

Swimming through turbulent water is easier for schooling fish compared to solitary swimmers, according to a new study. Swimming through turbulent water is easier for schooling fish compared to ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations. Recently, a team of researchers at Princeton and Harvard ran an experiment to ...

A new study of giant danios (not pictured) suggests schools of fish save 79 percent more energy in turbulent conditions than fish swimming individually. Gordon Firestein via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildly viral video with more than 10.4 million views shows a scene between ocean life that has left many people deeply moved. In ...

Schools of fish are mesmerizing examples of collective animal behavior. Thousands of individuals move in near-perfect synchrony, despite each fish having only a limited view of their surroundings. How ...

In a viral video on Instagram posted by Scienceboy, a dead fish with its body split open and its insides removed is placed into water, where it begins swimming around as if it were alive. This is not ...