The research maps biofluorescence across 459 glowing fish species and shows just how varied the colors have become.

It has been hailed as a diplomatic triumph, but some worry it could become a vehicle to increase China’s influence over the high seas ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

The psychedelic earth tiger, a dazzling rainbow tarantula from India, now faces extinction due to the illegal pet trade.