Quick Take A 436-million-year-old bony fish fossil has successfully helped researchers better understand vertebrate evolution ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Scientists have discovered previously unknown microbial communities living in hundreds of wild fish, revealing new insights ...

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It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ...

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While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing ...

VIENNA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Industrial-scale fisheries have not only sapped the world's fish stocks but also changed the species' evolutionary course, exacerbating the effect of overfishing by ...

Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...