Reef fish evolved the ability to feed by biting prey from surfaces relatively recently, a UC Davis study shows. The innovation has driven an explosion of evolution in reef fish. Image shows a rainbow ...

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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 ...

The mighty tuna is more closely related to the delicate seahorse than to a marlin or sailfish. That is one of the surprises from the first comprehensive family tree, or phylogeny, of the "spiny-rayed ...

If we could rewind the tape of species evolution around the world and play it forward over hundreds of millions of years to the present day, we would see biodiversity clustering around regions of ...

A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...

Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that helps fill major gaps in the evolutionary chain linking ancient fish to humans.

Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study shows that much of this diversity is driven by a relatively recent innovation among bony fish -- feeding by biting prey from surfaces ...