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

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

Scientists from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, together with colleagues from Central ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

"The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand Australia's ancient ecosystems and the evolution of its fish species, specifically ...

Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...