I remember the first time I saw a Santiago Calatrava bridge, a spinal column of calcium-white ribs snaking across a Spanish ravine. “That’s cool,” I thought. Then, a few years and a few thousand miles ...

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A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...

Skeletal development in fish is a multifaceted process involving a finely tuned interplay between genetic determinants, nutritional status and environmental conditions. Recent advances have elucidated ...

Design is a funny, marvelous, sometimes unsettling thing — especially when evolution itself is the designer. Take these six-decade-old pictures of skulls and bones. Seen in a certain light, and ...

Fish are often classed as ugly, slimy creatures but these latest images reveal their inner beauty. Each of the marine specimens have been bleached to make the skin clear and then stained to expose ...