Archerfish can recognise faces

The tropical archerfish can recognise people and spit at familiar faces, researchers from The University of Queensland and University of Oxford have found.

9 June 2016

Reef fish are helping a University of Queensland scientist discover how visual tasks such as object recognition and face perception are achieved by the human brain.

9 December 2015

In a remarkable new finding, scientists have reported that certain coral reef fish use ultraviolet (UV) vision to tell the difference between their own and other similar species.

25 February 2010

Around 800 Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences graduands will receive their degrees at two ceremonies in The University of Queensland’s new $20 million UQ Centre on Monday, December 9.

5 December 2002

University of Queensland PhD student Ulrike Siebeck has won a doctoral fellowship to study fish off Lizard Island.

14 January 2000

University of Queensland PhD student Ulrike Siebeck puts mermaids to shame in her diving and fish-catching abilities.

3 September 1999

Nine days in a state-of-the-art underwater "house" which enables scientists to live and work in the ocean for weeks at a time has advanced a University of Queensland's researcher's Great Barrier Reef studies.

2 September 1999