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STANFORD, Calif. - After decades of laboratory work studying how animals evolve, researchers sometimes need to put on the hip waders, pull out the fishing net and go learn how their theory compares to ...

An extremely rare fish with an unusual mutation has been caught swimming in a Virginia river. Jacob Moore had been fishing for largemouth bass in the lower portion of the James River when he caught ...

In the mucky bottom of the Hudson River dwell abundant Atlantic tomcod -- brownish, mottled fish a bit longer than a hand. There, too, can be found some of the highest concentrations of pollutants in ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

A fisherman in Minnesota has caught a sunfish with a rare genetic mutation that makes its skin golden. Terry Nelson was fishing for sunfish and crappies on Lindstrom Lake, in Chisago County, when he ...

University of Maryland researcher Cheng-Yu Li was in the lab one day when he noticed a fish with a protruding jaw: a telltale sign that it was incubating eggs in its mouth, keeping its offspring safe ...

Rotten fish contain a smellable chemical found in bad breath, faeces and blood, but some people identified it as sweets or roses. Jón Gústafsson, deCODE Genetics - Amgen Inc There are two kinds of ...

Genetic mutations that cause mammals -- including humans -- to develop super ripped muscles, are now resulting in exceedingly buff fish, according to a paper in the latest issue of Animal Genetics.