Decade-Long Study Reveals Zombie Worms Are Missing from the Sea—Scientists Flag Concern ...

A tiny fish long feared lost has resurfaced in Bolivia, offering a rare conservation success story amid widespread habitat ...

The African turquoise killifish lives in ephemeral ponds in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. To survive the annual dry season, the fish's embryos enter a state of extreme suspended animation or 'diapause' for ...

When the ponds where one African fish lives dry up, its offspring put their lives on pause. And now researchers have a sense for how the creatures do it. African turquoise killifish embryos can halt ...

Tokyo police on March 8 arrested five men on suspicion of illegally breeding and selling killifish that were genetically modified to make them “red and shiny.” Genetically modified organisms can ...

Aging and neurodegeneration are both known to disrupt the production of functional proteins in cells—a process called "proteostasis," or protein homeostasis. Brain cells in particular fall prey to ...

Killifish sound much more vicious than they are. These tiny fish adapt and spread far in the wild but make beautiful fish for display in your home. Killifish is a group of around 1,270 species of ...

UC Davis research on embryonic killifish reveals new insights into the multi-generational impacts of exposure to crude oil and flame retardants. (Bryan Clark, U.S. EPA) A tiny fish with transparent ...