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 ...

A new study suggests that conserving just 0.7% of global land could protect a third of threatened vertebrate species, ...

Snapping turtle - Otic notch at back of skull allows anterior expansion of jaw muscles. ‘Modified anapsid’ condition increases power of bite. Holes arose in dermal roof, muscles pass through roof to ...

Conserving just 0.7 per cent of the world's land could help protect a third of the threatened four-limbed vertebrate species, ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

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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 ...

Our results suggest that in this subsistence farming landscape, natural pest control of maize from vertebrates does occur, but further research is needed to understand the specific control agents and ...

A thorough knowledge of extant taxa is required when attempting paleobiological interpretations of extinct animals (Lauder 1995; Witmer 1995). Skeletal material, though informative, can provide only a ...

Examining genomes shows that gene snatching is pretty common between prokaryotes such as bacteria, but it has also been found ...

Two Dickinson alumni, Olivia Wilkins ’15 and Zoe Irons ’18, were hired this past spring as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, respectively. Wilkins is ...