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 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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Fish at the other end of Earth ... This is evidence that quite separate, independent episodes of molecular evolution occurred, with the same functional results. This is a dramatic example of ...