DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, from tiny frogs to large mammals.

The South American lungfish genome, the largest animal genome sequenced at 91 billion base pairs, has been fully decoded.

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

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

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For the first time ever, paleontologists have found fossil traces of burrowing bees nesting inside the buried bones of other ...

In the aftermath of historically severe wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates ...

Under no light but the stars, a green sea turtle hauls herself out of the surf and onto the familiar sand of Alagadi Beach on ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

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Abstract: The modulation of joint stiffness is a crucial mechanism that allows humans, and other vertebrates, to perform stable and efficient locomotion. Compliant actuation is an emerging branch of ...