For human beings and 99.8% of our fellow vertebrates, having jaws is an integral part of life. Just try eating a taco without them. But, like everything else in our bodies, jaws had to start somewhere ...

Around 500 million years ago a strange creature with bulging eyes, a rudderlike tail and 30 pairs of spiny limbs extending from its cigar-sized body swam through Earth’s seas. Most of its legs ...

A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake Malawi is helping researchers refine our understanding of how evolution works. A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake ...

Colorful angelfish -- beauties of coral reef habitats -- have capitalized on a remarkable set of jaws to exploit niches inaccessible to other reef denizens, according to new research. Fish that eat ...

CHICAGO — Every time you bend your knee, rotate your shoulder, or nod your head, you’re using a remarkable piece of ...

David Sims has received funding from the European Research Council, the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws opened ...

AMHERTS, Mass. – A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa’s Lake Malawi is helping researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to refine our understanding of how evolution works. ...