Four-eyed Cambrian fish fossils hint at origins of vertebrate pineal complex

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
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Scientists propose a “genome zoo” of 10,000 vertebrate species

In the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted, an international consortium of scientists plans to assemble a genomic zoo–a collection of DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate ...

Mass extinction helped jawed vertebrates rise, study finds

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
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Check Out the Rare and Bizarre Specimens Hidden Away in Museum Storage

A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now ...

Conserved genome regulatory elements found in both vertebrates and echinoderms

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...