By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...

From field sites in Vietnam and the coast of West Africa to her laboratory in Washington, D.C., Kate Bemis applies her knowledge of fish diversity to support sustainable fisheries Naomi Greenberg Kate ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

A strange, big-eyed "dragonfish" hidden under Antarctic ice for 780,000 years has finally been discovered - and it's already at risk.

New research uncovers a hybrid visual cell in deep-sea fish, challenging the traditional rod-cone dichotomy in vertebrates. These cells, discovered in larvae of certain Red Sea fish, mix the ...

Scientists searching the under-explored Bounty Trough in New Zealand announced that they’ve discovered 100 species of ocean life that are either new or potentially new. New Zealand’s National ...

A deep-sea fish species with unusual cheek patterns has been discovered in the South China Sea after it was listed on online seafood markets. The fish has been named Branchiostegus sanae because its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOPEKA (KSNT) – A group of Kansas wildlife biologists on the hunt for invasive species made a surprising discovery in April when ...