Skin vision: How bizarre hogfish that 'sees with its skin' can help us develop robotic limbs and self-driving cars
One color-changing fish has evolved a clever way to keep watch on the parts of itself that lie outside its field of view
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One color-changing fish has evolved a clever way to keep watch on the parts of itself that lie outside its field of view
Hogfish can change color to camouflage themselves. New research clarifies how their light-sensitive skin works.
US biologist Lori Schweikert was looking at a hogfish caught in the Florida Keys when she noticed that, even though it was dead, its skin had the colour and
Now researchers think they know why. Several years back, during a fishing expedition in the Florida Keys, biologist Lori Schweikert came face to face with an unusual quick-change act. She caught a pointy-snouted reef fish known as a hogfish and placed it on her boat's deck. However, when she later
A new study revealed a bizarre characteristic of a hogfish that can change the colour of its own skin according to its surrounding environment with the help of special sensing cells even after they...