Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates 14.5 million wild vertebrate animals are killed on Oregon’s roadways ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a new study that has implications for human health.

In a UC Irvine office, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk studies a video that has changed her view of a deep-sea legend. “You see it ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...