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 ...

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an embryonic skate head and explains how the red denticles dotted all over it have very similar properties to human teeth. Dr Gillis: “This is a picture of an elephant fish ...

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 ...

The elephant fish is an unusual shark relative that lives in the waters around Australia and New Zealand. Divers recently brought back rare examples of its embryos, which reveal the shocking ...

You have a lot more in common with elephant fish than you probably think. Granted, you likely don't live hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface, emerging to shallow water once a year to lay your ...

The cartilaginous elephant shark has a basal phylogenetic position useful for understanding jawed vertebrate evolution. Survey sequencing of its genome identified four Hox clusters, suggesting that, ...

Elephant-nose fish need to twist, pace and shimmy to accurately “see” the shapes of objects when interpreting wobbles in electric fields. Peters’s elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is native ...

An unusual eye structure helps the strange-looking elephantnose fish see in their dim and murky habitat, a new study suggests. These fish live in muddy rivers in central and west Africa, which are ...