Author: Kat Kerlin, UC Davis

  • Against the Tide: A Fish Adapts Quickly to Lethal Levels of Pollution

    Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, and published Dec. 9 in the journal Science. While environmental change is outpacing the rate of evolution for many other species, Atlantic killifish living in four polluted East Coast estuaries turn out to…