Whether it's to blend in with their surroundings, ward off predators, or attract a mate, these fish use color changes to their advantage. Here are ten fascinating fish species that can change ...

They need to get the color right." A pointy-snouted reef fish called the hogfish can change ... floor looks like or an approaching predator or mate." As we increasingly move toward incorporating ...

Some of our reef fish go down deep in the sea to reproduce ... and breeding then it is to hide so it develops bright colors to attract a mate. Each stage in the life of the fish may have a ...

We’ve long marveled at color-changing critters like squid ... including temperature adaptation, mate attraction, and camouflage. But the mechanisms through which they shift their pigmentations ...

When a male pufferfish decides it’s time to mate, he begins to build an elaborate sand structure on the ocean floor. Although the male fish are only about four inches long, they trace circles in ...

Normally, this species of medaka fish is small and white colored ... or to signal that they are looking for a mate. Guppies change their eye color to black when acting aggressively around food.

and the choice of mate. In highly transparent water around coral reefs, visual signals such as color patterns are used as important communication tools. Many fish leverage these patterns to ...

This impacts reproduction due to the fact that groupers only reproduce at spawning events, when fish from a certain area congregate to find a mate at a specific location a handful of times per year.

Whether it’s to blend in with their surroundings, ward off predators, or attract a mate, these fish use color changes to ...