“Humans and fish aren’t close evolutionary cousins,” Siek said. “We’re part of the same phylum called Chordata. We share a ...

While the exterior of vertebrate bodies appears bilaterally symmetrical, internal organ positioning and morphology frequently exhibit left-right (L-R) asymmetries. In several vertebrates, including ...

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals—dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic ...

Our paper describes a new species of the genus Palaeospondylus, only the second known. Remarkably, for the last 135 years, ...

A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of new structures such as limbs and the neck. In an article published ...

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 ...

through efforts of CU and UCM paleontologists, along with students and amateur collectors, the UCM boasts an unmatched collection of early and middle Eocene vertebrate fossils from the Rocky Mountains ...

A part of the brain called the pallium is responsible for complex functions and cognition, and is one thing that sets humans ...

Researchers have found an ancient scorpion fossil dating back approximately 125 million years in northeast China's ...

Sometimes, it takes a monumental event to spur Congress into establishing a national park. Such a significant event, or ...

Around 10 centimeters in length, the fossil of a type of scorpion species that existed around 125 million years ago has been ...