Some stickleback fish fathers can have long-term effects on the behavior of their offspring, researchers report. The most attentive fish dads cause their offspring to behave in a way that makes them ...

Certain types of tapeworm make sticklebacks behave carelessly and thus become easier prey for birds. A team of biologists have now demonstrated for the first time that the tapeworm not only influences ...

Evolutionary biologist Dr. Katie Peichel has spent much of her career studying two types of fish. One lives in the ocean, traversing through empty swathes over flat, open sand, where larger, predatory ...

Stickleback fish fathers can cause their offspring to behave in a way that makes them less susceptible to predators. Researchers report that long-term effects on the behavior of their offspring are ...

Large numbers of three-spined stickleback have gradually taken over larger parts of the Baltic Sea's coastal ecosystem, shows a new scientific study. Stickleback is a small prey fish common in aquatic ...

LEICESTER, England, Nov. 3 (UPI) --When choosing a mate, the female stickleback fish looks for a male that's handy around the house and quick on his feet -- or fins. More specifically, she prefers a ...

It’s a fact of life in the animal world that some fish (and birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, crustaceans — you name it) eat their young. The three-spined stickleback, a species found around much of ...