Humans Got Their Flexible and Sturdy Joints From Fishes, Evidence Found in 400 Million-Year-Old Jawed Fish Evolution has ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

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.

These large, mysterious creatures are the longest-living vertebrates on the planet—and their genomes could contain clues to how they prevent cancer and reach such an advanced age ...

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 ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the ...

Biologists have discovered that bombesin, a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans, also regulates feeding in starfish, ...

Marine vertebrates must surface to transmit data (Holland et al. 2009). Tri-axial accelerometer tags record detailed three-dimensional movements of tagged animals. This generates a thorough ...

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 ...