The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

Scientists discover subtle spinal enlargements in zebrafish, reshaping understanding of vertebrate nervous system evolution ...

Vertebrate morphology exhibits remarkable diversity, reflecting a complex interplay of developmental processes, genetic regulation and environmental pressures. This variation arises from a combination ...

Researchers have traced cell origins critical to vertebrate evolution by studying a group of primitive, bloodsucking fish called lampreys. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining traits. Regardless of their shape, size, or sharpness, they stem from the ...

Tidal marshes : home for the few and the highly selected / Russell Greenberg -- The Quaternary geography and biogeography of tidal saltmarshes / Karl P. Malamud-Roam [and others] -- Diversity and ...

A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been examined and dismissed by scientists, using fresh techniques. A feeding method of the extinct jawless ...

In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste mechanism. Most have lost this ability in humans, but they still make up a ...

One of just two vertebrates without a jaw, sea lampreys that are wreaking havoc in Midwestern fisheries are simultaneously helping scientists understand the origins of two important stem cells that ...

Four-limbed vertebrates, known as tetrapods, have two enlarged areas in their spinal cords. The two enlargements have a ...

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology reveals an astonishing discovery in southwestern Montana: a 95-million-year-old miniature ...