Killifish sound much more vicious than they are. These tiny fish adapt and spread far in the wild but make beautiful fish for display in your home. Killifish is a group of around 1,270 species of ...

Minnow-like Atlantic killifish spend their entire lives swimming in a toxic stew of chemicals in some of the United States’ most polluted waters. Now scientists have figured out why they are not just ...

Turquoise killifish genomes help to explain their 'live fast, die young' lifestyle. You have full access to this article via your institution. For the turquoise killifish, ‘live fast, die young’ is no ...

Research into aging requires patience, but a small cadre of scientists is angling to speed up answers by developing the flamboyant, short-lived turquoise killifish as a new mode Physiologist ...

The African turquoise killifish lives in ephemeral ponds in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. To survive the annual dry season, the fish's embryos enter a state of extreme suspended animation or 'diapause' for ...

The population of Gulf killifish in the Houston Ship Channel had been steadily declining for decades, likely a result of the toxins pouring in from industrial activity, when suddenly and mysteriously, ...

Reports that a rare Bolivian killifish thought to be extinct has been found alive would be a landmark moment for conservation biology, but based on the material available here, I cannot verify any of ...

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. New research shows that a signal species of fish in the Gulf Coast was harmed by ...

Studying aging and its associated diseases has been challenging because existing vertebrate models (e.g., mice) are relatively long lived, while short-lived invertebrate species (e.g., yeast and worms ...

How long can you hold your breath? For even highly trained humans, it’s a few minutes, tops. Compare that with the killifish, which can survive without oxygen for more than 60 days, by far the longest ...