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

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Fishing has been a vital source of protein for humans for millennia, but there was a time you got a lot more meal for your ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

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

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species.