Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

A fish (with scales and gills ... in the fossil record that creationists cited as evidence against Darwinian evolution. Scientists can’t say whether Tiktaalik itself is the ancestor of any ...

Have you ever wondered why our ears look the way they do? That soft, curved shape we rarely think twice about might actually ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

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

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor and all its descendants is an unrealizable dream, awkwardly grouping ...

smell like fish, but somehow, even if they are used for different types of motions, our joints are structured the same way as those of fish. Evolution has a sense of humor.

Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...