In freely swimming fish, we found that the timing (measured as phase difference) between yaw and side-to-side movements of the head increases with swimming speed (Fig. 1a). Simultaneous muscle ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

Researchers at the Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab at Peking University have developed a bio-signal framework showing that fish muscles do far more than generate swimming motion. In a series of ...

The extensive advances during the past decade in our understanding of genes and genomes have yielded several new areas of research. One of these, environmental genomics, explores how the genome ...

A rare genetic defect that affects the so-called ALG2 gene can cause serious metabolic diseases in humans. Until now, its rareness and complexity made it difficult to study this congenital ...

As a postdoc at McGill University in Montreal, Emily Standen—who’s now based at the University of Ottawa—raised 111 two-month-old bichirs in laboratory environments that forced them to use their fins ...

Discover the boxfish swimming paradox and why its design inspired the Mercedes-Benz Bionic car, despite misconceptions about its stability. "But please don't." The scientists laser-scanned preserved ...

Researchers from Peking University have conducted a series of studies on fish muscles. The research shows that the muscles ...