When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the ...

Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

A newly discovered fossil site in Egypt is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how marine ecosystems recovered after the ...

After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, there is very little evidence of fish in the fossil record. Now, a ...

A new study finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought. There's a whole lot of talking going on beneath the waves. A new study from Cornell University finds ...

Smithsonian Ichthyologist Matt Girard talks about how and why he studies archerfishes. Abigail Eisenstadt There’s a group of fishes that shoot water from their mouth to stun prey. Matt Girard, an ...

Mesopelagic fishes—the small fishes living in the ocean’s twilight zone—form one of the most characteristic features of the open ocean: the deep scattering layer at depths between 200 and 1,000 m, ...