Newswise — The sensory system in fish fins evolves in parallel to fin shape and mechanics, and is specifically tuned to work with the fish’s swimming behavior, according to new research from the ...

Extreme habitats call for extreme adaptations, many of which look mind-bogglingly strange to us. And the deep sea has got to be one of the richest seams for a biologist wanting to seek these oddball ...

Papers presented at a meeting held at the University of Chicago, in April 1967, and sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (contract F44620-67-C0083), the Comparative Physiology ...

If you vacationed on the Great Lakes in the summer after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, you may have had the misfortune of spotting a sea lamprey wriggling through the shallows. The population of this ...

Our skeleton is kind of strange. Most of it forms from the same tissue that makes things like our muscle and connective tissue. The exception is a big chunk of our face, like the jaws and nasal ...

New research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars program zeroes in on the surprising observation that many genes found in brain cells and ...