Tagged: fish

Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows

A 380-million-year-old fossil of a fish has revealed that fingers evolved in vertebrates before the creatures wriggled out of the sea and evolved into land-dwelling creatures, as a new study describes. The fossil of the 5.1-foot-long (1.6 meters) fish, known by the scientific name Elpistostege...

It Takes a DJ: Healthy Reef Sounds May Lure Fish to Damaged Reefs

The past century hasn’t been kind to coral reefs. These delicate, complex, important ecosystems have been hit hard by environmental changes like pollution, ocean acidification and warming seas due to global climate change, resulting in damaged and diseased corals. And coral reef ecosystems need healthy...