A little stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) nicknamed "Mary" appears to have leaped across a major reproductive divide on the evolutionary tree of life. Stickleback females, like most female ...

WASHINGTON – Your birth control pill is affecting more than just your body. Flushed down toilets, poured down sinks and excreted in urine, a chemical component in the pill wafts into sewage systems ...

Sewage has always been a scary business to consider. Made even creepier with the release of a new study finding human birth control to be drastically reducing fertility in fish. Waste, by its very ...

Among pregnant women at high risk of preterm birth, those who eat fish a few times a week may be less likely to deliver early, a new study finds. Whether fish itself helps prevent preterm delivery is ...

Some fish lay eggs, others give birth directly to tiny wiggly babies. According to a new Nature Communications study, giving birth to live young increased the diversity of ray-finned fishes like ...

Many fish in the US are now taking birth control, most of them without consulting their gynaecologist. A study done by the US Geological Survey found that fish all across the US are being exposed to a ...

Survival strategy An endangered species of fish can produce offspring without mating, report US researchers. The discovery, published today in Cell Biology , is the first-known example of the asexual ...

Eating fish in pregnancy reduces the risk of having a premature birth, scientists have found. Every year over 13 million babies are born prematurely across the world - many in developing countries.

I am now a parent to a baby fish. I “gave birth†to it early morning two Tuesdays ago. I labored for two days. And how! I didn’t know how I got “pregnant.†It just happened. It’s ...

Giving birth to live young is thought to mainly occur in mammals and sharks, but a new study suggests that it was once a common mechanism for reproduction. A large group of ancient fish carried its ...