Figure 1: Geographical patterns in reef fish biodiversity in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The Centre-of-Overlap and the Centre-of-Accumulation hypotheses state that only the tails of species' ranges ...

The scales pattern of the Brill fish will be used. Photo: Getty Images. Scientists at Dublin City University have found a way to stop marine organisms attaching themselves to ships and other ocean ...

How do scale patterns on fish provide understanding of the development of feathers, fur -- and even cancer? Biologists are investigating. When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto ...