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 ...
Scientists have finally explained how the African turquoise killifish has evolved to “press pause” on life to survive drought, allowing embryos to endure extreme environmental stress by halting their ...
Eggs of killifish species coveted by hobbyists are sent on to international markets from Brazil via airmail. International animal trafficking rings often cash in on global demand for smaller, ...
The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group at the University of Basel now reports in “Science” that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other ...
The new killifish species was discovered in the temporary wetlands of Chaco National Park, researchers said. Photo by Alonso et al. (2025) While surveying the seasonal wetlands of Argentina’s Chaco ...
Atlantic killifish contributed key adaptive genetic variation to the Gulf killifish, which amounted to an evolutionary rescue from toxic pollutants. (Andrew Whitehead/UC Davis) The combination of a ...
In the game of love, we typically think of males as being the showy courting sex and females being the coy choosy sex. But what if your species doesn't have the simple division of males and females?
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