Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

Co-created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, Adult Swim’s ‘Rick and Morty‘ revolves around the eponymous duo as they race ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Most fish on Earth today are ray-finned fishes: minnows, anchovies, catfish, bluefish, groupers, flatfish, bonitos, you name ...

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

Hidden beneath the water's surface is a botanical world that is among nature's most innovative and ecologically important.

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 ...

An international team has identified a new amphicyonid species, named Paludocyon moyasolai, from a skull found 30 years ago ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

In New York’s Catskills, the cradle of American dry fly fishing, a total beginner learns the sport—and its history ...

As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner ...