Catfish are extraordinary creatures with distinctive whiskers, also called barbels, and they aren’t the only fish with them.

Originally, the researchers were investigating how the fish respond to various chemical taste stimuli, but while studying nerve fibers in the catfish’s whiskers they noticed that those ...

While performing electrical recordings from the fish barbells, or "whiskers," he ... to the respiration of small sea worms, polychaetes, a primary prey of the sea catfish. The sea worms live ...

Catfish have evolved sensors on their whiskers that can help the animals hunt in the dark by detecting slight changes in water acidity, the first time such sensors have been seen in fish ...

If you've fished in freshwater, you've probably caught "Mr. Whiskers." Catfish use their barbells ... bait over dead and are known to eat bream, small bass, shad and crawfish.

Description: Catfish have whiskers, making them easily recognizable ... Food: Larger plankton and insect larvae, small fish and tadpoles, and crustaceans are the bagrid's main meal, but in ...

Catfish have evolved sensors on their whiskers that can help the animals hunt in the dark by detecting slight changes in water acidity, the first time such sensors have been seen in fish ...