At first glance, tube-eyes and cods seem nothing alike. The former, a ribbon-shaped, deep-sea fish, has bizarre tubular eyes that resemble goggles. The latter, one of the world’s most commercially ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Immunostaining depicts collagen-2 (cyan) and nucleus (magenta) at the articulation in the little skate embryo's pelvic joint. Synovial joints are a key feature of most vertebrate skeletons, providing ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

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