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

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

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.

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

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Fish represent one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, exhibiting a wide array of physiological adaptations that have enabled them to colonise nearly every aquatic habitat on Earth.

(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 ...