As you sit at your desk and chew your morning muffin, consider the complicated interlocking structure of your jaw. How did you manage to evolve such a thing? What you’re eating through is essentially ...

A widely debated topic in biology and fisheries sciences is the role of oxygen in the growth of fish and other water-breathing animals. According to new research, developmental changes in individual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1995 film Waterworld, severe climate change has caused global changes to the Earth’s surface, forcing humans to live on ...

The middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills, according to a study of a 438 million-year-old fossil fish brain. Scientists discovered the fossil of the braincase of a Shuyu fish. Despite its skull ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The human outer ear may ...

In 1878, German anatomist Karl Gegenbaur proposed a theory that fish fins and human limbs evolved from a structure that resembles gill arches, a collection of bony "loops" in fish that support the ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...