In the case of the "four-eyed fish," or Anableps, and its sister species A. microlepis and A. dowei, the fish have two large eyes. "The four-eyed name derives from the fact that it divides each ...

“Hey, four-eyes!” That playground taunt is more accurate when applied to Anableps anableps—a fish related to the guppy. It lives in the brackish waters of mangrove swamps in central and ...

The fish’s loins, on the other hand, are a somewhat trickier fit (literally) for that purpose. Anableps anableps is commonly called a four-eyed fish, but it actually has only two. They look like ...

Four-eyed fishes of the genus Anableps and their relatives are a fish family from the Neotropics with a number of bizarre traits that have fascinated naturalists for centuries. These include ...

Another four-eyed fish called Anableps tetrophthalmus has eyes on top of its body. Each eye is divided into two parts. The upper part is designed for seeing in air, while the lower part has ...

A species of fish has an unusual way of eating — it thrusts its jaw out and downwards to nab prey on land. Krijn Michel at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and his colleagues took high-speed ...