The single biggest key to sound reduction, the team found, was the synchronization of the school's tail flapping—or actually the lack thereof. If fish moved in unison, flapping their tail fins at the ...

A mesmerizing school of catfish created a swirling underwater spectacle as hundreds of fish repeatedly scattered and ...

The team found that a school of fish moving together in just the right way was stunningly effective at noise reduction: A school of seven fish sounded like a single fish. Swimming in schools makes ...

A 'shoal' is any group of fish that stays together for social reasons. A 'school' is a group of fish swimming in sync, same direction/speed. Different fish species have unique collective nouns (e.g., ...

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Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish. Engineers working with a high-tech simulation of schooling mackerel offer new insight ...