Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

“This is the most comprehensive scientific publication on the distribution of fish bioluminescence ever written, and the authors show that bioluminescence evolved way more times independently than ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

A fish (with scales and gills ... in the fossil record that creationists cited as evidence against Darwinian evolution. Scientists can’t say whether Tiktaalik itself is the ancestor of any ...

smell like fish, but somehow, even if they are used for different types of motions, our joints are structured the same way as those of fish. Evolution has a sense of humor.

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

This has important implications for how we think about reef fish ecology and evolution. It shows that broad feeding categories like "planktivore" can mask the diversity of other behavioral and ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Fig. 3 This is a diagram showing the dermal jaw bones from fish to human. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...