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

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help ...

Roxanne Cabebe-Barnuevo and Hiroyuki Motomura decided to take another look at some old scorpionfish specimens and noticed a few fish that didn’t quite match ... spines, teeth, fin shape and other ...

The Northern sea robin, found along the western Atlantic, is notable for its wing-like pectoral fins and its ability to 'walk' on the sea floor using crab-like legs. These legs also help in foraging, ...

Fedortsov identified the blob as a smooth lumpsucker, a species of marine ray-finned fish that grows to over a foot long and resides in the depths. The Lovecraftian critter caused quite a stir ...

The species of marine ray-finned fish is found in the deep sea and measures up to 44cm, reports What's The Jam. While their appearance is certainly unique, it appears to have undergone some ...

The species of marine ray-finned fish is found in the deep sea and measures up to 44cm. While their appearance is certainly unique, it appears to have undergone some swelling – likely due to the ...

Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and diversity of fish. The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food ...

That ancestor was a group called the lobe-finned fish, or sarcopterygians. One kind of ancient lobe-finned fish is Tiktaalik. They’re extinct now, but scientists think they lived about 375 ...

Ladich and Schulz-Mirbach explore one of the main riddles of fish bioacoustic systems: what selective forces and/or constraints led to the evolution of diversity in the inner ear, including accessory ...

Changes in electric field caused by motion past landmarks are sensed by thousands of electroreceptors located on the fish’s skin (Figure 1). Primary afferents relay this information to the ...

Matthew Davis of St. Cloud State and colleagues analyzed 10 nuclear genes and one mitochondrial gene from 301 taxonomic groups of ray-finned fishes, which comprise the vast majority of fish species, ...