Humans Got Their Flexible and Sturdy Joints From Fishes, Evidence Found in 400 Million-Year-Old Jawed Fish Evolution has ...

In the depths of the ocean, where there’s no sunlight and the pressure could crush a submarine, a handful of animals have ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

a professor of biological sciences who specializes in fish evolution, at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Since blobfish live so deep, it’s rare to see them, but they’re different from ...

Wrasse fish use hard surfaces as tools to crack open prey. This behavior shows flexible thinking and environmental awareness.

Deep-sea fish have adapted through two evolutionary pathways: ancient survivors and new immigrants. A key finding challenges the TMAO hypothesis, revealing a genetic mutation in the rtf1 gene that ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a diver's outfit.

Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...