Tracing the evolutionary origins of fish to shallow ocean waters

Coral reefs are envisioned as the seats of great biodiversity, but they may not be where all that diversity got its start. In a new study in Science, paleobiologist Lauren Sallan and colleagues reveal that the earliest fish may have diversified in shallower waters near shore.

The earliest evidence of deep-sea vertebrates

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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the heaviest of all the bony fish - the largest weighing over 2,700 kg (6000 lbs). Its massive body becomes infested with parasites, it will invite

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