Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes fireflies flicker and ...

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

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 ...

Monday, Nov. 11 is Veterans Day. The federal holiday is observed each year to recognize Americans who've served in the ...

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

"There aren't very many places in North America where rocks that are terrestrial or on land are really well-preserved and ...

The findings show that while color vision in animals predates the appearance of colorful fruits by 150 million years and ...

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

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

They made it official by naming the frog Brachycephalus dacnis. At only 7 millimeters in length, B. dacnis are the ...

"These findings broaden our knowledge about the evolution of sex chromosomes and provide a solid foundation for future research on genome evolution and chromosome organisation in vertebrates ...

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