Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

The Greenland shark, a species that quietly roams the depths of the Arctic waters, holds the remarkable title of the ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

If we give Blob some legs and a head then he can start to move about. There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Slide 1 of 5, , Mammals: Lions, humans and dolphins Mammals breathe ...

A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan, a wormlike fish that flourished around 520 million years ago, sported structures that were the precursors of the head and jaws of modern vertebrates.

THIS comprehensive work, of nearly 1900 quarto pages carrying more than 700 text-figures, has grown out of Prof. Ariens Kappers' “Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System”, of now more than ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their ...

INTEREST in the function of the endocrine glands during embryonal development in vertebrates arose in connexion with investigations of the role of endocrine factors in the metamorphosis of the ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves in a dazzling variety of textures and hues. But ...

through efforts of CU and UCM paleontologists, along with students and amateur collectors, the UCM boasts an unmatched collection of early and middle Eocene vertebrate fossils from the Rocky Mountains ...