People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is not separate from human beings. In fact, human cultural practices can ...

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 ...

They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...