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Though present in more than 6,000 living species of fish, the adipose fin, a small appendage that lies between the dorsal fin and tail, has…

Some 56 million years ago, a massive pulse of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, carbonate…

Once upon a time, in a sea far far away, called Adriatic Sea, there were many cuttlefish. These delicate creatures spent their short life…

As if Hawaii didn’t already have enough to boast about – beautiful beaches, luscious green mountains, and lava – it now also wears…

Big animals make lots of dung. And where there’s dung, there’s dung beetles. Researchers counted fossilized dung beetles to figure out…

What comes to mind when you think of crocodiles? You might think of ancient reptiles, or “living fossils,” that have been…

Off the west coast of Peru, seabirds deposit thick layers of guano that accumulates on the ground because of the lack of rain. Guano has…

Biological classification arranges taxa according to their degree of relationship; several species may be grouped in a genus, several…

For many years, morphology-based classification has served us so well, and still forms a basis of what we are viewing the biological world…

Mitochondrial DNA studies shows the occurrence of three well-defined groups of pipefish populations – which independently evolved in a…