Imagine tracing your family tree not just to distant ancestors, but to creatures that once swam in primordial seas and hopped along muddy riverbanks. The connection is more than poetic—it’s written in ...

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

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.

“A New Tree of Life” (2016); (B) a simplified version showing other major divisions. Incidentally, not reproducing doesn’t mean you’re not involved in the evolutionary process. Non-reproductive ...

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.

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

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Canadian evolutionary biologist Dolph Schluter the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the mechanics of evolution, which has ...

Corn, working with Professor Peter Wainwright and other colleagues in the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, classified 1,530 living species of reef fish by feeding method, then mapped them ...

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 June 24th in the open-access journal ...

“Our knowledge of the fish Tree of Life is dramatically different than it was 20 years ago,” said Near, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the ...

This study shows that the developmental processes that are responsible for these joints arose deep within the fish evolutionary tree." ...