As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been investigating how the paired fins of fishes ...

Behold the frogfish. This bizarre creature really is a fish, despite its bullfrog face, pectoral fins that look like webbed feet, and a froglike mouth that snaps up unsuspecting prey. But the way it ...

Biologists have found that one small change in a fish gene makes a significant difference in the size of its fins -- a rare textbook example of how abrupt evolutionary changes can occur. The ...

While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle. By Sofia Quaglia The sea robin has fascinated scientists for decades. It has the body of a fish, the wings of a bird and the legs of a ...

Earth’s biological history stretches far beyond the age of dinosaurs. Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and ...

Swedish-English researcher finds overwhelming evidence that fingers on humans evolved from the same gene that is found to grow fins on the Australian lungfish. Such a discovery helps to add credence ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...