Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

The transition to eating cooked instead of raw meals was seen as a key development in human evolution, according to a newly published study. The question of “the first meal” has long been debated, but ...

For certain fishes, evolution is easy. After tracking the evolution of teeth in cichlid fishes from Africa, a team of ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

View post: We Already Have a Contender for the Best Movie of 2026 A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our ...

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...

Although scientists have found evidence of charred bones around human fires that burned as long as 1.5 million years ago, that evidence hasn’t been enough to prove that the humans were cooking.

The Viperfish’s Teeth Are Larger Than Its Mouth These formidable teeth cause the viperfish’s lower jaw to protrude forward. The teeth sit outside of the mouth, interlocking, with two large lower fangs ...