Why does it take so long for fish stocks to recover from over-fishing? This problem has been worrying both scientists and fishery managers who expect stocks to quickly rebound when fishing stops. Now ...

One of the most important, most mystifying moments in the history of the planet was the emergence of the first fish out of water and the evolution of those fish into the earliest land-living tetrapods ...

A new discovery finds 419 million years old fossil of fish that has the same jawbones as modern vertebrates. Chinese Academy of Sciences An international team of scientists have discovered an ancient ...

Most people assume that fish are perfectly safe underwater and that drowning is impossible for them. After all, they are uniquely designed for life beneath the surface. But the idea that fish cannot ...

The genome of the ocean sunfish, the world's largest bony fish, has been sequenced for the first time. The ocean sunfish genome revealed several altered genes that may explain the fast growth rate and ...

Researchers have examined a long-preserved fossil of a tiny fish, which existed on Earth more than 500 million years ago, and suggested that its remains could solve mysteries about ancient vertebrates ...

Fish stranded on shore often look helpless, all flops and wriggles. But that clumsy scramble may follow a surprisingly consistent plan, one shared by several species separated by large gaps on the ...

Poland says rare toxic algae found in the River Oder may explain the mass deaths of fish in the waterway along its western border with Germany. At least 100 tonnes of lifeless fish have been recovered ...