Guppies are beginner-friendly, low-maintenance fish that thrive in a 10-gallon tank, with a peaceful temperament and omnivorous diet. Males are smaller with vibrant colors, while females are larger ...

Guppies can be fooled by optical illusions into believing objects are smaller or larger than they really are. This suggests they might not always make the best choices in their natural environment.

Duping a guppy is easier than duping a ring dove — at least when it comes to a classic optical illusion.

The guppy studied is the tiny fish in the bottom-left corner. Also shown are the two predators researchers used to stress the guppy out: a heron and a blue acara cichlid. The guppy studied is the tiny ...

Five minutes in the life of a guppy, in the terrible spring of 2015: You’re swimming around with your friends in a tank. You’ve been here for days. Food falls from the sky. Everything is fine. Then ...

For female guppies, there’s more to life than making babies. A new study finds that guppies experience menopause just like humans and other animals. The study is the first demonstration of menopause ...

Mosquitofish and guppies, though known to be cannibalistic in captivity, are extremely unlikely to be cannibals in wild settings, and the rare instances of cannibalism in these fish are likely due to ...

Trinidadian guppy fish have varying levels of self-control, scientists have found (University of Exeter/PA) Just like humans trying to stick to New Year’s resolutions, guppies have varying levels of ...

Larvae-eating guppy fish can help combat the spread of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness giving rise to hundreds of thousands of severe cases including 20,000 deaths worldwide every year. Larvae-eating ...

When Robert Heathcote dips his head into the rivers of Trinidad, he’ll often see little black dots moving through the water, even when it’s murky. Those dots are the eyes of small, inch-long fish ...