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 ...

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 ...

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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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.

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