The coelacanth is a legendary type of fish often mistakenly referred to as a “living fossil.” Despite originating during the Devonian period around 350 million years ... Continue Reading → ...

In a study based in Washington, a group of researchers determined that the male ghost shark's forehead appendage, called a ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil found on a beach in Devon, England, is changing what we know about lizard evolution. A new ...

Eel movement involves stretch and pressure signals, enabling swimming, crawling, and recovery after spinal injury.

In the rainforest, much of life dwells in the tree canopy. But getting up there to study it isn’t easy. By the time a human ...

Ratfish developed "forehead teeth" called tenaculum for reproduction, offering rare insight into the flexibility of ...

Researchers at EPFL have created the first 4D lipid atlas of vertebrate development, revealing how fats shape our bodies from ...

A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of new structures such as limbs and the neck. Lateral and dorsal views of ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best known of our evolutionary ...

A study by a group of researchers at the University of Kentucky in collaboration with scientists in four other countries has been published in Nature. Their study is titled "The hagfish genome and the ...

Hourglass treefrog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus). Amphibians, which face some of the steepest declines worldwide, saw some of the biggest benefits to living in protected lands. (Credit: Justin Nowakowski ...

Scientists discover missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University of ...