Marine life is full of strange, beautiful, and often misunderstood creatures, but few are as bizarre and fascinating as the ...

If a zebrafish’ spine is injured, the damaged neurons respond ... If injury-surviving neurons are disabled, the fish don’t regain their normal swim capacity, even though regenerative stem ...

In particular, they show that its fins were becoming connected to its spine, a feature of limbs in land vertebrates, but not of fins in fish. “That’s an unexpected result given the way we’ve ...

The single-letter mutation showed that both the ancient and modern recipes for spine development are still to be found in the fish genome. A chance mutation that led to spinal defects in a ...

Supplied Sid's second toe shows the black mark where the weever fish spine punctured the skin Mr Turbett, an aquarist, said: "I wouldn't say that weever fish in themselves are a problem ...

At that point, you can use a knife to gently pull the spine and small bones away from the fish. To do this, many recommend fish tweezers, but you can also raise the head end of the spine with ...

One of these species is the spotfin scorpionfish, or Neoscorpaena nielseni, a bright red fish typically found in the western ...