How did Mary the stickleback fish gave birth to already-fertilized eggs? Scientists have solved how the fish had a “virgin birth,” and the answer is simpler than one might expect. Mary is a female ...

In his voluminous writings, Charles Darwin made only brief mention of a little fish called the stickleback. The great naturalist was grappling with the question of how animals select mates, and male ...

It’s got a Dr. Seuss name and a prehistoric appearance, but the threespine stickleback of Lake Washington is opening new frontiers of scientific understanding about how animals adapt to rapid ...

SEATTLE — May 15, 2008 — Evolution is supposed to inch forward over eons, but sometimes, at least in the case of a little fish called the threespine stickleback, the process can go in relative ...

The stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is one of the most thoroughly studied organisms in the wild, and has been a particularly useful model for understanding variation in physiology, behavior, ...

It's not just we humans who value consensus: A new study has shown that stickleback fish make better decisions when acting as a group than they do as individuals. Researchers set up a clever ...

00:00, Mon, Jun 8, 2015 Updated: 13:43, Mon, Jun 8, 2015 While murder, mayhem and the laws of nature prevail in his underwater neighbourhood, this unremarkable little fish does not even live up to his ...

A tiny, scaleless, freshwater fish, the highly endangered unarmored threespine stickleback is a fierce protector of its nest, which it defends by dashing forward with gaping mouth and “hackles” raised ...

Abstract The ability of various vertebrates to perceive visual information in the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum (300–400 nm) is receiving increasing interest. To date, many of ...

The traditional recipe for publication of a genome sequence goes something like this: one part 'biology' (an often flowery description of the distinctive aspects of the organism whose genome has been ...

Evolution is supposed to inch forward over eons, but in the case of the little threespine stickleback fish, the process can go in relative warp-speed reverse, according to a study led by Dr. Katie ...