The discovery is exciting because it broadens previous ideas that teeth are mainly used for eating, says researcher Karly ...

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

Article from Biological Sciences in Space. -- Vol.11, no. 3 (1997). Report of the Medaka fish mating experiment carried out on the space shuttle Columbia as part of the second International ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

Ratfish developed "forehead teeth" called tenaculum for reproduction, offering rare insight into the flexibility of ...

Researchers at EPFL have created the first 4D lipid atlas of vertebrate development, revealing how fats shape our bodies from embryo to organism.

In a study based in Washington, a group of researchers determined that the male ghost shark's forehead appendage, called a ...

If you're reading this sentence, you might have a fish to thank. Fish were the first animals to evolve jaws. They use their jaws primarily to eat, but also for defense, as tools—such as to burrow or ...

Researchers at EPFL have created the first 4D lipid atlas of vertebrate development, revealing how fats shape our bodies from ...

Sri Lanka’s foremost biodiversity scientist, Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, describes this country as “a veritable Garden of Eden for ...