New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine - ...

A team of scientists has discovered how vertebrates evolved complexity. By producing multiple protein forms from the same genes, early vertebrates developed new organs, tissues and cell types, ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

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 ...

Corticoid receptors, encompassing both glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, are pivotal to the regulation of physiological processes across vertebrates. These receptors have evolved through ...