An international team of researchers from Malaysia and Australia has successfully sequenced the genome of a famous ornamental fish species called the Asian...
After a hundred years of debate, a team of Canadian scientists has proved that American eels (Anguilla rostrata) really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea...
The Arctic polar night is not a period without any biological activity as had been assumed, says a large international team of biologists led by Norwegian...
According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, enamel evolved in the skin and colonized the teeth much later.
Early evolution of...
WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report provides the most accurate picture of the state of the ocean, and the results are not very good. The report, released...
A new species of the deep-sea anglerfish genus Lasiognathus has been described from the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Lasiognathus dinema,...
A new study, led by Prof Minoru Tanaka of the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, shows that the foxl3 gene, which is expressed in...
A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
A chemical signature recorded on otoliths (ear bones) of Chinook salmon could tell scientists where the fish lived, says a new study published in the journal...
A team of researchers led by Dr Nicholas Wegner of NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center has discovered a whole-body form of endothermy...
A group of biologists headed Prof Taifo Mahmud of Oregon State University has discovered that zebrafish (Danio rerio) are able to synthesize a chemical...
Researchers from the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project have uncovered a unique ecosystem of fish and invertebrates...
Fish-hunting cone snails add a unique form of insulin to the venom cocktail they use to disable their fish prey, according to a new study.
The Geography...
A group of scientists led by Prof Douglas McCauley from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has found that the same patterns that led to the collapse...
According to a team of paleontologists from the United Kingdom and Japan led by Dr Haruyoshi Maeda of Kyushu University Museum, color vision evolved in...
The world’s deepest fish has been captured on film by scientists from the University of Hawaii, Schmidt Ocean Institute and the University of Aberdeen...
Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute using their remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts have filmed a rare and bizarre-looking...
A new study published in the journal Biology Letters is the first to document that fish larvae produce sound.
This image shows an unpigmented larva of...
