Picture this: you’re gazing into a vibrant aquarium, entranced by the hypnotic dance of fish. But what if I told you that ...

Evolution’s Family Tree: The Branches We Share The evolutionary family tree is a sprawling, tangled masterpiece, and humans, frogs, and fish are all nestled on its vertebrate branch.

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California Davis, US, and colleagues report in the open-access journal PLOS Biology .

Thanks to a new anglerfish family tree, now we know. Scientists built this evolutionary tree using genetic information from hundreds of samples and anglerfish specimens across the globe.

Scientists found a large river predator, weighing up to 220 pounds, in China and discovered a new species, a study said and ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

This study shows that the developmental processes that are responsible for these joints arose deep within the fish evolutionary tree." More information: Sharma N, ...

In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor and all its descendants is an unrealizable dream, awkwardly grouping organisms with ...

For 150 million years, gars—a group commonly derided as “trash fish”—have mostly stayed the same, a rare consistency not even seen in sharks, a new study says.