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 .

Around 375 million years ago, a giant fish evolved limbs for walking. But some of its descendants reversed course on the evolutionary road, becoming swimmers again.

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.

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

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

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 ...