FISH can do maths, scientists have found. It was thought they might flounder in arithmetic tests — but they showed they could quickly work trout sums between one and five. Fish can do maths, ...

Researchers used stingrays (left) and cichlids in a study that shows fish can do math. Image via University of Bonn. Zoologist Vera Schluessel of the University of Bonn led the research team. These ...

Fish are helping researchers track down the origins of how brains compute math, according to a review (“Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology”) in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. An ...

“Fish are on par with other animals in possessing a sense of quantity,” said Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara from the University of Trento, Italy, corresponding author of the study. “There are species, ...

Fish are helping researchers track down the origins of how brains compute maths, reports a review in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. An international team has reviewed more than 200 publications, which ...

It’s no shocker that Harry and Hermione would know that 4 – 1 = 3. But what if I told you that this Harry and Hermione aren’t characters in Harry Potter stories — they’re stingrays. And they can still ...

Fish can do math, scientists have found. It was thought they might flounder in arithmetic tests — but they showed they could quickly work trout sums between one and five. They were first trained to ...