By piecing together genomic clues, his team in Texas and colleagues at Michigan State University uncovered how a number of strikingly similar electric organs arose in electric fish lineages ...

Creating speculative evolution art allows me to explore these ideas visually and share my vision of what future life on Earth—or elsewhere—could look like." ...

Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study by biologists at the University of California, Davis, shows that much of this diversity is driven by a relatively recent innovation ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Canadian evolutionary biologist Dolph Schluter the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the mechanics of evolution, which has ...

Mudskippers, a subfamily of fish that live both on land and in the water, are the only fish that can blink, and they evolved this ability independently from our ancestors — a concept known as ...

University of California - Davis. "Reef fish evolution driven by biting." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 July 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 07 / 220726194432.htm>.

More information: Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55216-8 Provided by Uppsala University ...

A newfound fossil of a jawless fish is the oldest known vertebrate cranium preserved in 3D. The 455 million-year-old find could illuminate how vertebrate heads evolved.

Life A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water A fossil from 385 million years ago named Qikiqtania wakei shows that a descendant of early land animals lost its ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...