Compared with wild predators that have roughly the same body size as us and have similar appetites, we capture or kill nearly 100 times as many vertebrate species, on average. Orcas, for instance ...

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 ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), which was launched in 2017, to pursue the ambitious ...

"These octopuses pay the ultimate price – they are killed— because researchers are curious to know about comparative brain anatomy vis-à-vis ... to every single vertebrate animal 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists believe they have discovered the oldest vertebrate animal on Earth: a female Greenland shark that lived to be nearly 400 years old. The shark, which measures over 16 feet in length ...

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 ...

T he Greenland shark holds the title as the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth, with some individuals potentially reaching 500 years of age. This elusive deep-sea predator, found in the frigid ...

This course is designed to provide students a broad understanding of the anatomy of vertebrates with an emphasis on comparison between taxa and their evolutionary significance. Students will acquire ...

A tiny frog endemic to the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast may have just earned the title of the smallest vertebrate in the world. The Brazilian flea toad, or Brachycephalus pulex ...

The first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils found in Texas have been discovered by a team led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, filling a major missing puzzle piece to the state ...