“Keeunamorphia may represent some of Australia’s earliest marsupials, with possible origins in Gondwana and a record spanning more than 35 million years before its apparent extinction in the Middle ...

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A long-held theory suggests that the asteroid strike that killed off non-avian dinosaurs — and most large marine predators — ...

Zorapterans, an insect group that includes angel insects, or ground lice, has defied phylogenetic categorization for decades. The big question was whether Zorapterans and Dermapterans (earwigs) were ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish ...

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could help unravel how early vertebrates evolved similar abilities hundreds of ...

All-female species have been long thought to be evolutionary dead ends. So how has one remarkable fish survived for 100,000 years without males? The answer is revealing new insights into how nature ...

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In shallow seas near Australia, a familiar, trunked face emerges from billowing tufts of red algae. The fish it belongs to, though, is new to science. Ghost pipefishes (Solenostomus) are so named ...

The iconic sideways walk of crabs may have evolved just once, in an ancestor that roamed Earth roughly 200 million years ago. That conclusion, published April 21 in eLife, comes from researchers who ...

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it's because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces. Evolution doesn't ...