Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

Learn more about a fish-inspired robot and what it can teach us about how animals first left the water and began moving on ...

While swimmers and boaters don’t have to fear sharks or giant squid in the Great Lakes watershed, invasive fish the size of large dogs lurk in the freshwater. Invasive carp have wreaked havoc on the ...

ALAPPUZHA: The increasing presence of invasive fish species in the Vembanad lake ecosystem is raising serious concerns among ...

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could help unravel how early vertebrates evolved similar abilities hundreds of ...

The newly documented hairy ghost pipefish was named after this fuzzy "Sesame Street" character. See which one, why.

The Red Sea, sandwiched between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, is teeming with life, including octopuses and more than a thousand species of fish. Every day, the goal of these creatures ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

Have you ever looked at two circles of exactly the same size and sworn one was larger? If so, your eyes have been tricked by the Ebbinghaus illusion, a classic example of how context can shape what we ...