A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

A research team led by Prof. ZHU Min-member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute of ...

A little over a century ago, some grizzly bears still roamed the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains that ring the ...

New global analysis shows that by 2100 thousands of vertebrate species could face extinction as climate-driven extreme heat combines with expanding human land use.

The newly identified fossil is significant because it provides a long-sought morphological link between the earliest known ...

This important study establishes the first vertebrate models of DeSanto-Shinawi Syndrome, revealing conserved craniofacial and social and behavioral phenotypes across mouse and zebrafish that mirror ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such as ...

Scientists warn that rising heat and rapid land change could reshape wildlife habitats faster than expected. A University of ...

An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...

Specimens of rare species collected by the celebrated naturalist Gerald Durrell have been donated to National Museums ...

Deep in the mountains of southern Brazil, a bright orange frog, just over a centimeter long, hops into the spotlight.