An in-depth analysis reveals that for each identified vertebrate species, there may be two others, nearly identical in ...

A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws. And the most dangerous predator of them all? A human and their pet bird dancing to “Gangnam Style.” Scientists ...

Nearly one third of all known vertebrate species are either used or traded by humans around the world. “We’ve become this kind of super-predator,” says Rob Cooke at the UK Centre for Ecology & ...

Lampreys are one of only two living jawless vertebrates Jaws are formed by a key stem cell population called the neural crest New research reveals the gene regulatory changes that may explain ...

Dr. S. D. Biju, a biologist at the University of Delhi, found a frog with a body length of only 10 mm in India. There are 2400 kinds of vertebrates on the ground in India, but there are 218 frogs in ...

The Fantastic Animal exhibition explores the inside of vertebrate bodies. The bodies of all kinds of vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles and birds, have been preserved as they are through ...

A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...