It might not seem like a big deal, but the ability to recognize that the face in the mirror is your own makes us part of a pretty exclusive club in the animal kingdom. Humans obviously can do it (from ...

NEW YORK — Scientists report that a fish can pass a standard test of recognizing itself in a mirror — and they raise a question about what that means. Does this decades-old test, designed to show self ...

Fish introduced to a mirror began to act strangely, swimming upside-down or spreading their fins. They also tried to scrape a mark from their throats. Reading time 5 minutes New research seems to ...

It’s something most of us do every morning without a second thought. We wake up, stumble to the bathroom and glance at ourselves in the mirror as we wipe the sleep from our eyes. It may not seem like ...

A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality. A little blue-and-black fish swims up to a mirror. It ...