Fish can band together, sometimes in the millions, to form a school or shoal. They will move as one, like a flock of birds, so long as each fish stays in line with the fish that surround it.

It’s not clear what overtook this school of fish, but the remnant—an untimely demise etched in a limestone slab for all eternity—is a breathtaking glimpse of ancient fish shoaling. A social ...

A shoal of 259 fish preserved in a slab of limestone, dating back to at least 50 million years ago, from the Green River Formation. Image Credit: Mizumoto et al, Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

The rules of school are simple: it is all about watching the kid nearest to you and making sure you do what they do. Researchers at the mathematics department at Uppsala University, together with ...

As the Australian netball team prepares to face arch rivals New Zealand in this year's Constellation Cup series, the Diamonds reveal how a school of fish helped them beat the Kiwis at the 2014 ...

Occurred On May 27, 2025, in Malatu, Indonesia, the video showed the diver gliding slowly through clear blue waters near when thousands of fish suddenly swarmed around him in a dense, shimmering cloud ...

Reference: Gómez-Nava L, Lange RT, Klamser PP, et al. Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nat Phys. 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41567-022-01916-1. This ...

A striped marlin ("Tetrapturus audax") hunts a shoal of sardines, in Magdalena Bay (Mexico), in November 2019. FRANCO BANFI / BIOSPHOTO. F or sport-fishing enthusiasts, sea marlins are the dream ...