Most fish wait for a meal to come to them. The archerfish goes and gets it, and it does so with a technique found nowhere else in the animal kingdom. Hovering just beneath the surface of a mangrove ...

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The archerfish fires a jet of water at an insect sitting on a branch above the surface and hits it. Not sometimes. Routinely. From distances of up to three metres, with a brain that weighs less than a ...

Stefan Schuster, a professor of animal physiology at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, has spent much of the last two decades diving into the extraordinary abilities of archerfish. These small ...