Ancient fish fossil reveals evolutionary origin of the human hand
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins.
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins.
Evolution
Mar 18, 2020
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The largest fish to walk on land, the voracious northern snakehead, will flee water that is too acidic, salty or high in carbon dioxide—important information for future management of this invasive species.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2019
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For more than a century, the world's oceans have been becoming steadily more acidic as they soak up ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the impacts can be fatal for invertebrates such as shellfish, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2019
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George Toe reflects on the good old days, when catching a couple of sharks helped fill a fisherman's pocket and fed a hungry family.
Ecology
Jan 25, 2019
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Researchers from Mexico and the United States have concluded that a population of fin whales in the rich Gulf of California ecosystem may live there year-round—an unusual circumstance for a whale species known to migrate ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2019
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Researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 18 have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony fish had teeth ...
Archaeology
Oct 18, 2018
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Scientists from the University of Plymouth are carrying out research into one of the more painful features of the South West's beaches – weever fish.
Ecology
Aug 24, 2018
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Published today, our new paper describes a spectacular 400 million-year-old 3-D-preserved fossil fish, Ligulalepis.
Archaeology
May 30, 2018
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As you picture the first fish to crawl out of primordial waters onto land, it's easy to imagine how its paired fins eventually evolved into the arms and legs of modern-day vertebrates, including humans. But a new study by ...
Biotechnology
Mar 19, 2018
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Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery.
Archaeology
Feb 13, 2018
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