Fisheries-Induced Evolution (FIE) refers to the evolutionary pressure on marine populations resulting from excessively high ...

The fossil record has historically included few fish for about 10 million years after the mass extinction event 65 million ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University of Chicago.

Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

Scientists have uncovered the secret of the Amazon molly, an all-female fish species that has survived for 100,000 years through cloning, defying long-held evolutionary theories.

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated when and how the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand ...

These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, them you may eat ...

The story of Earth's first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life.

Previous fossils show fish brains rattling around inside much bigger skulls, but the brain of Trawdenia planti fits snugly ...

Here’s something you didn’t know. Clark’s nutcracker, a clever North American bird, can store over 33,000 pine seeds in 2500 ...