Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new fish species come from five continents and a diversity of habitats, including limestone caves, peat swamps, wetlands and rivers. Most are ...

Bass in southeastern rivers turn out to be two species, highlighting hidden diversity and growing threats from habitat ...

A group of scientists recently announced that they had discovered a new species of dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the ...

Thousands of species produce genetically identical (clonal) offspring through asexual reproduction 1. However, asexual reproduction is much less common than sexual reproduction is, partly because it ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve ...

The warty frogfish, also known as a clown anglerfish, is believed to be the first of its kind born and raised in captivity ...

A midbrain region in fish combines light signals from the eyes and the pineal organ, a light-sensing structure often called the 'third eye.' ...

In a significant discovery for marine biology, an adult Yellowbar Angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus) was identified off the ...

When an Amazon molly says she doesn't need a man, believe her. Every single one of these small fish, found in freshwater streams in Mexico and Southern Texas, is female, and reproduces exclusively ...