UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been shaped by microscopic melanin pigments. This new twist in the story of ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the olfactory ...

Scientists in Australia have unearthed beautifully preserved fossilized hearts and other internal organs of ancient armored fish in a discovery that provides insight into the evolution of the bodies ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been examined and dismissed by scientists, using fresh techniques. A feeding method of the extinct jawless ...

Researchers have traced cell origins critical to vertebrate evolution by studying a group of primitive, bloodsucking fish called lampreys. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

March 10 (UPI) --Fossil evidence of Earth's earliest vertebrates is sparse, but many scientists agree that a model for the ancestors of the all living vertebrates can still be found in the coastal and ...

An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...

Researchers have provided the first experimental evidence that brain regions can evolve independently of each other during cognitive evolution. This so called mosaic brain evolution was verified ...