For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, given ...

For Mighty Vertebrate, they’ve taken the opposite approach by carefully composing every part before recording note one. This was a new process for Butterss, but they found familiarity in ...

When they’re not adding low-end groove to those projects, though, they’re turning an eye toward their own solo work — most recently with their second album, Mighty Vertebrate, which is out ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. One estimate of the number of vertebrate species in the world is about 68,000. DNA studies suggest that more actually exist because some ...

A tiny frog endemic to the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast may have just earned the title of the smallest vertebrate in the world. The Brazilian flea toad, or Brachycephalus pulex ...

The first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils found in Texas have been discovered by a team led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, filling a major missing puzzle piece to the state ...

That mystery may now have been solved, according to a team of Japanese scientists who claim their 3D scans of a generous sampling of fossils rule out the vertebrate hypothesis. They described ...

Its unique anatomy has long challenged researchers, making it difficult to identify as either a vertebrate or invertebrate–one of the first steps of classification. Vertebrates are animals with ...

3D scanning of enigmatic fossil may have brought an end to debate about whether it is a vertebrate or invertebrate In the 1950s, Francis Tully was enjoying his hobby fossil hunting in a site known ...

But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate brain, in a fossilized fish almost 320 million years old. After an animal dies, its flesh and organs usually disappear very ...