Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

When I was a little kid, I used to be extremely particular about water. Whether it was my bathwater or the drinking water ...

The Wilderness Cooking chef Tavakkul prepared the recipe on sea lamprey cooking using his magic hands and joy. Personally, I ...

Recent research reveals that synovial joints originated in early jawed fish, reshaping our understanding of vertebrate ...

In this study, Sharma and colleagues examined the anatomy and development of joints in members of two early-branching vertebrate lineages: one species of jawless fish, sea lampreys, and two ...

Scientists studied modern cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and skates, and compared them to their jawless counterparts, like lampreys. They discovered that synovial joints — lubricated, cavitated ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale shark genome to generate ...

The ontogenetic trajectory of a marginal jawbone of Lophosteus superbus (Late Silurian, 422 Million years old), the phylogenetically most basal stem osteichthyan, visualized by synchrotron ...