Scientists have long known some animals have UV vision, with the ability to see those wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum that are shorter than visible light. But they hadn't realized just ...

Fish can recognize a face based on UV pattern alone Date: March 1, 2010 Source: Cell Press Summary: Two species of damselfish may look identical -- not to mention drab -- to the human eye.

While we might use eye color and hairstyle to tell people apart, some fish species rely on ultraviolet light patterns of faces to distinguish one species from another, a new study finds.

Prior to this, many researchers thought the fish's UV vision just allowed them to detect the presence of UV light, and wasn't refined enough to detect any kind of patterns. The team, led by Ulrike ...

Finding Nemo's cousins: Meet the little fish that can see UV light. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 11 / 191111084931.htm ...

To people, the two species of reef fish look practically identical. But under UV light they are revealed to have distinctly different patterns in the scales around the eyes.

Lumpy, but brilliant under UV light. By Annie Roth What color is a lumpfish? The answer is more complicated than you might expect. These bumpy, bottom-dwelling fish, found in the North Atlantic ...

When Gagnon and his colleagues exposed embryos and larvae to UV light, embryos of mothers lacking the eevs gene failed to develop and only 2 per cent of their already hatched larvae survived.

Columnaris disease in pet fish goes by many names: saddleback, guppy disease, cottonmouth, and camelback. It’s a highly contagious bacterial infection and one of the most common pet fish illnesses.