Researchers have found that chunks of "flipped" DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary "superchargers." ...

In addition to fish, plants were among the first to venture onto land, adapting to the new environment with mechanisms to absorb sunlight, conserve water, and resist desiccation.

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes. CNN values your feedback 1.

At some point around 350 million to 400 million years ago, during the Permian-Triassic boundary, several lineages of fish dragged themselves out of the water and onto land for the first time.

At first glance, a fossil of a creature called Anatolepis looked like a vertebrate fish – and indeed, previous research from 1996 had identified it as one. Haridy and her colleagues noticed that ...