Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

The challenges of modern wildlife conservation are far more complex than anything managers faced when the Idaho Department of ...

Wrasse fish use hard surfaces as tools to crack open prey. This behavior shows flexible thinking and environmental awareness.

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a diver's outfit.

Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, presented his “survival of the friendliness” ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Off the coast of Brazil, a scuba diver captured something remarkable on video: a wrasse fish gripped a mollusk in its mouth, ...