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

This essay will explore some of the relationships between sentience, pain and vertebrate phylogeny. A sentient animal is one that has the ability to obtain and interpret stimuli from its internal ...

Research in our group investigates a number of questions central to understanding animal evolution and development: What determines the lifelong regenerative capacity of some animal lineages ? How the ...

Research in our group investigates a number of questions central to understanding animal evolution and development: What determines the lifelong regenerative capacity of some animal lineages ? How has ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes ... of insights into genome evolution in vertebrates.

The absence of a notochord, he says, is one factor that has allowed for the many interpretations of yunnanozoan phylogeny, and therefore he says it was “a little bit of a surprise” to see the fish ...

All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental ... The study of this development can yield insights into the process of evolution.

Fosillised scales and teeth of the wealden fish (Lepidotes) found inside the ribs of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri, Surrey © The Trustees of the Natural History ...