Because we're a member of the group, it's easy to see vertebrates as the pinnacle of evolution, a group capable of producing bats, birds, and giant whales in addition to ourselves. But when they ...

Dr. Pol Capdevila of the School of Biological Science said: "Global assessments of how the resilience of vertebrate species has changed over the last decades were absent before our study ...

And now a new study examining human predation’s influence on nature reveals some fresh insights, such as the fact that we capture even more terrestrial vertebrate species for medicine ...

Researchers have established climate regions based on vertebrate species' distributions in a new study. They found that while high-energy climate regions are similar across vertebrate and plant ...

Those three animals are among the third of all wild vertebrate species that people eat, trade or otherwise use, a new study reveals. Out of nearly 47,000 vertebrate species around the world ...

New CU Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago, documenting an ...

The Pacific hagfish is the only vertebrate that can obey the cardinal rule of the dinner table: don’t eat with your mouth open. Uniquely among the 50,000 vertebrate species alive today ...

A retroviral link to vertebrate myelination through retrotransposon-RNA-mediated control of myelin gene expression. Cell , 2024; 187 (4): 814 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.011 Cite This Page : ...

A long-living type of rodent, not known for its good looks but an important participant in cancer research conducted by two University of Rochester scientists, was named Vertebrate of the Year.

With many of Earth’s nooks and crannies still unexplored, there are likely even tinier vertebrates waiting to be discovered, Solé says. Anything smaller than about six millimeters long “would ...