New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought. The post Fossils ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction in which an egg develops in the absence of fertilisation, has traditionally been associated with invertebrates. However, recent discoveries have ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

Scientists at Queensland Museum have uncovered a 400-million-year-old vertebrate fossil, which could be the smallest of its kind ever found in Queensland. Palaeospondylus gunni, a mysterious eel-like ...

Researchers have found that germ cells, which develop into eggs and sperm, drive sex-dependent differences in lifespan in vertebrates. Female and male germ cells increase and reduce lifespan, ...

The diversity of vertebrate feeding systems / Kurt Schwenk and Margaret Rubega -- Concepts of digestive efficiency / Ian D. Hume -- Carbohydrate hydrolysis and absorption : lessons from modeling ...