A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the ...

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.

Eastern Baltic cod have evolved to be smaller and slip through nets, according to landmark research that links overfishing to ...

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

(CN) — Intensive fishing caused the once-mighty cod to shrink by roughly half its size between 1996 and 2019, according to a ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of ancient Roman cuisine. They identified fish used in 'garum', a popular Roman fish ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...