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, ...

We share a common ancestor with all life on Earth, but we share common ancestors with some lineages of the Tree of Life much more recently than the 400-million-year-old fish that first came onto land.

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 .

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

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.

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

UC Davis study of 161 fish species using high-speed video reveals evolutionary trade-off: large teeth prevent mobile jaw development.

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 ...