Antarctic icefish uniquely survive without haemoglobin and myoglobin proteins. This genetic mutation led to significant ...

Queensland Museum scientists have described a 400-million-year-old fossil, which is possibly the smallest vertebrate fossil animal known from Queensland—Palaeospondylus australis. Details about this ...

I first read Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

A research team at Yunnan University has resolved a longstanding mystery regarding Earth’s earliest vertebrates, revealing ...

More than 500 million years ago, as myriad new lifeforms were emerging and diversifying in the world’s oceans, a small, wormlike fish called the yunnanozoan (Yunnanozoan livitidum) flourished around ...