Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...

Focus: Understanding how the morphological development of bony fishes has changed over evolutionary time We study the morphological development of bony fishes, and how it has changed over evolutionary ...

A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological innovation (complex teeth), not just the innovation itself, enables this rapid evolution. (Credit: Nick Peoples, UC Davis ...

Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and diversity of fish. The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food ...

For example, certain groups of ray-finned fishes show such regressive evolution—medakas, minnows, puffera, and wrasses do not ...