A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California ...

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

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 ...

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

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

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

(CN) — Intensive fishing caused the once-mighty cod to shrink by roughly half its size between 1996 and 2019, according to a ...