The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

Søren Skarby's "Scaled Up" series uses a complex process to showcase fish with a level of detail not typically seen.

So then you may develop osteoporosis in your 50s rather than your 70s or 80s.” Osteoporosis is a “silent” disease because ...

Our tour of Britain’s seaside towns continues in Whitby, where macabre associations and top-notch fish and chips have kept ...

These, however, are far from the traditional pearls of the past. Instead, the modern pearl is boldly oversized and completely ...

Bone health doesn’t get talked about enough until something goes wrong — a fracture, a diagnosis, or a creaky feeling that ...

The startling image was created by a team from Ghent University in Belgium, showing the face of a woman who lived and died in ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

The evolution of the shark is not what most people would expect. Instead of sharks evolving from a massive predator, the ...

How a bacterium unrelated to fish got its name 'salmonella' Despite its fishy name, the bacterium salmonella has no connection to the underwater creature. Special Series Word of the week ...