University of Cambridge biologist Andrew Gillis studies the embryos of elephant fish, distant relatives of sharks with long, trunklike snouts. But how, exactly, do you get an elephant fish embryo? You ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. With the seals gathering on the ...

Elephant sharks offer a novel perspective on how humans evolved. A new study parses some previously unexplained reproductive differences. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of ...

Chimaeroid fish are a small group of cartilaginous fish in terms of the number of species. In their appearance, there are features of different fish, which was the reason for the first scientific name ...

The elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii) is an unusual looking and uncommon animal model. Known by several names, such as ghost shark, elephant fish and silver trumpeter, the species is found in ...