From increased vigilance to enhanced foraging opportunities, schooling and shoaling are critical survival tactics in the underwater world. Here are five photos that beautifully illustrate why fish ...

In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast of Norway, where a swarm of cod overtook them, consuming over 10 million fish in a few hours. The team ...

At least qualitatively, this effect has been partially attributed to the ‘rapid’ nature of the shoaling process, i.e. shoaling occurs over a distance far shorter than that required for waves to ...