Her lab has discovered that just as whales swallow plastic thinking it’s food, some cellular components of the immune system in fish “swallow” bits of microplastic that they mistake for invading ...

Fish have a circulatory systems with just one circuit. Their hearts pump oxygen poor blood to their gills, where oxygen is absorbed from the water. The blood then flows around the fish's body and ...

Some of them retain their neural identity and go on to form most of the body's sensory nerves, as well as the nerves that manage the digestive system. But others utterly transform and go on to do ...

That’s because the synthetic circulatory system that moves the lionfish’s “blood” (an electrolyte solution) around its body both stores the energy to power the robotic fish and helps it to ...

Fish is also rich in iodine, which is a vital mineral that the body can’t produce on its own. Iodine is important to the function of your thyroid , which controls things like your appetite and ...

Our sensitive teeth originally evolved from the "body armor" of extinct fish that lived 465 million years ago, scientists say.. In a new study, the researchers showed how sensory tissue discovered on ...

This makes the opah the only known fish species to be whole-body endothermic, or warm-blooded. Dr Nick Wegner, who co-authored the study, says this trait gives the opah distinct advantages as a ...

Our sensitive teeth originally evolved from the "body armor" of extinct fish that lived 465 million years ago, scientists say.. In a new study, the researchers showed how sensory tissue discovered ...