Deep-sea fish, a group of inhabitants of the most light-deprived and harsh environments on our planet, have been discovered ...

Fossils depicting the evolution of fish at a museum - Danny Ye/Shutterstock Norselaspis glacialis is closely related to early jawed vertebrates. Through X-ray imaging, the researchers discovered that ...

Learn more about the evolution of human fingers and toes, which originate from the genetic programming for a multipurpose orifice in fish.

An ancient, well-preserved fish brain analyzed recently by University of Michigan scientists could unlock new discoveries about evolution and the formation of fossils. The brain, which the university ...

A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have zeroed in on an amphibious fish species to better understand the evolutionary pressures that molded blinking in land-dwelling ...

For 150 million years, gars—a group commonly derided as “trash fish”—have mostly stayed the same, a rare consistency not even seen in sharks, a new study says. A longnose gar swims through Florida's ...

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. "Much of what we have today has been around ...