Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

Jawed vertebrates known as gnathostomes appear to be the first creatures with the synovial joints, according to Shubin. These joint cavities can be seen in cartilaginous fish such as skates or sharks.

Ancient fish had synovial joints, challenging the idea that flexible skeletons evolved on land. Fossils and modern fish show ...

A previously unidentified fish species has been named, and its origin has been traced to southern Taiwan following joint ...

Explore the world's most disgusting foods, from chunky whipped animal fat to crispy fried crickets and fermented shark meat, ...

In a nutshell Synovial joints—the flexible, lubricated connections that allow smooth movement in our bodies—first appeared in the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates but are absent in jawless ...

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Experts have disabled the myostatin gene in fish, which limits the increase in muscle mass. According to the calculations of ...

Shah and colleagues take advantage of the presence of maternal and somatic ribosomes in zebrafish and confirm their differential expression during development. The authors convincingly show that ...

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known ...

From a single cell to an entire organism, embryonic development is a process of continuous and constant change. However, our ...

Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how ...