New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

“It looks like the fish has a large chunk of its skull missing—as though somebody took a little ice cream scoop and took a ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

In the realm of marine biogeography, there is a widely held scientific principle: the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans are worlds apart. If you dive in Brazil and then in Okinawa, you expect to see ...

The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...