This ability—which is rare among vertebrate animals—allows these fish to feed rapidly and efficiently on algae growing on rocks. The work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

A coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," was spotted in eastern Indonesia in a rare sighting of a species once ...

In most fields knowledge has been passed on from one generation to the next through writing. Few societies have retained oral transmission as a major means of dissemination. Once immersed in nature, ...

ranging from jawless fish to early jawed fish and even the ancestors of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrate animals). The fossils discovered in Queensland, although fragmented, show a three ...

La Jolla, CA–Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will to unveil Oarfish: Recent Discoveries ...

Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists at UC Davis have discovered.

Lateral jaw motion in fish expands the functional repertoire of vertebrates and underpins the success of a dominant herbivore lineage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 ...