The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Vertebrates (animals with vertebrae) constitute a large group of animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. A remarkable stage in their evolution was the transition from ...

My, what small teeth they had. A newfound treasure trove of ancient fish fossils unearthed in southern China is opening a window into the earliest history of jawed vertebrates — a group that ...

In the past, various researchers have placed yunnanozoans into multiple clades, including cephalochordates (a clade of rudimentary invertebrate marine animals), hemichordates (considered to be a link ...

For that reason, I generally don’t consider them homes. But the analogy is apt, if only to convey the uniqueness of their ...

New research shows the anti-aging drug Rapamycin extends lifespan as effectively as dietary restriction in vertebrates.

In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic ...

Fish: Vertebrates that live in water and breathe using gills; Fish are defined as vertebrates (meaning they have a backbone) that live in water and use gills to breathe.

Drift outside the realm of vertebrates, however, and you can generate an intelligent brain in much weirder ways—from our perspective, anyway. “It’s a Wild West,” she said.