Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil ...

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Amy Boddy and her collaborators are working to gain insight on this and other cancer ...

This makes the vampire bat a very unusual animal indeed, since most vertebrates rely primarily on the metabolism of ...

If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love natural history. I worked in a natural history museum for ...

"However, one group of vertebrates has evolved to share a love of eating blood: vampire bats. And, unlike most bats, vampire ...

The researchers found that vampire bats — like blood-sucking insects — are capable of metabolizing amino acids as a primary ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ. Strangely ...

In the culmination of a decade-long effort, they have completed a compilation of cancer prevalence across 292 species of vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in ...