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

A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

adding that “it is going to really help us understand early chordate—and possibly as well early vertebrate—evolution.” Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and edits for the news desk and ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...