During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure ...

And strangely enough, those same holes allowing the fish to breathe were modified through evolution to become eustachian tubes, which enable us humans to hear—but more about that later.

Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world. Now researchers say these incredible fish ...

To better understand these unique genetic adaptations, scientists modified ... In future studies, notothenioids and other Antarctic fish -- as well as fish engineered to mimic notothenioids ...

“Fossils can give us important insights into how that transition might have unfolded, and the types of evolutionary adaptations it required or produced. But having a contemporary example of fish ...

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As global temperatures rise, many species are scrambling to adapt—or risk extinction. Scientists refer to these animals as ...

One finding of this study challenged the traditional trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) hypothesis of deep-sea adaptation. While TMAO levels increase with depth in fish living between 0 and 6,000 ...