The reason we humans have fingers today may all be thanks to a fish's clacker. New research into the origins of digit formation shows that the DNA switch controlling finger and toe development got its ...

Now, in a new study published in Nature, scientists from the University of Geneva, EPFL, and collaborators in the U.S. have ...

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

Researchers discovered the earliest instance in which fish took advantage of their gill bones to make a new innovation in the ...

Researchers from FishEye Collaborative, a conservation-technology nonprofit, Cornell University, and Aalto University have ...

A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California Davis, US, and colleagues report June 24 th in the open-access journal PLOS ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...

Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." But sea robins in the family Triglidae are some of the ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

A UB study has found that even fish that have adapted to dry climates are struggling amid rising temps and reduced water ...

Fish in dry regions are declining as climate warms, rainfall decreases, habitats shrink, and invasive species spread.