Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

which are some of the earliest vertebrates (animals with backbones) in which the mouth is fossilized. Their aim was to answer questions about feeding in early vertebrates without jaws in the early ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

Most vertebrates living outside the tropical zone show robust physiological responses in response to seasonal changes in photoperiod, such as seasonal reproduction, molt, and migration. The highly ...

That might seem surprising upon finding out that, when armadillos get jiggy with it, only one egg is fertilized. But, like ...

In contrast, air-breathing ectothermic vertebrates, such as reptiles and ... during digestion have been documented for the first time. Unlike carnivorous reptiles, which show pronounced metabolic ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

A local library encouraged parents to bring their children to its facility to promote literacy at an early age.

In vertebrate motor circuits, hodological patterning has been demonstrated at different ... to a large proportion of rostrally projecting neurons at the rostral end of the next segment (Figure 5).

At the time, hundreds of millions of years ago, “the earliest vertebrates [were] sort of reptile-like creatures,” and “mammals came out of that, as did dinosaurs and birds and amphibians.” ...