Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, including mammals and birds ... The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate ...

Meet the longest-lived animal with a backbone. Scientists estimate that Greenland sharks live for around 250 years, but some ...

A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times.

But the marvelously preserved fossil sheds new light on how the vertebrate invasion of land ... bequeathed us our limbs, backbone, teeth and sense organs—and, perhaps, our expansive curiosity ...

A research team including Dr. Victoria Arbour, the curator of paleontology at the Royal BC Museum, alongside researchers from ...

Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs, ankylosaurids, have been discovered for the first time, thanks to fossil ...

Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the ...