The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group now reports that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species. Unlike other fish, their body ...

Killifish biology has long intrigued fish enthusiasts and scientists. But human encroachment, habitat loss and climate change are dwindling killifish populations in the wild. Thankfully, collection ...

“Wow, that’s a really old fish!” Valenzano can barely hide his astonishment in the fish basement of the Max Planck Institute in Cologne. Aquariums are lined up end to end on long shelves. Who, however ...

It's one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water. The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish. Scientists have discovered that it spends ...

The population of Gulf killifish in the Houston Ship Channel had been steadily declining for decades, likely a result of the toxins pouring in from industrial activity, when suddenly and mysteriously, ...

The secret to humans thriving well into old age may lie with a species that barely lives for any time at all: the East African turquoise killifish, whose four- to six-month lifespan makes it among the ...

Turquoise killifish genomes help to explain their 'live fast, die young' lifestyle. You have full access to this article via your institution. For the turquoise killifish, ‘live fast, die young’ is no ...