Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

The Greenland shark, a species that quietly roams the depths of the Arctic waters, holds the remarkable title of the ...

The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, given ...

All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry. All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow ...

The left–right asymmetrical placement of internal organs that characterizes the vertebrate body plan is established during embryogenesis by complex genetic and epigenetic cascades. In all ...

For the first time, footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the ...

Mighty Vertebrate' is the International Anthem leader debut from Adelaide, Australia-born bassist and composer Anna Butterss. Butterss has steadily become a first-call for tour and studio work since ...

These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least 70 million years and bats by more than twice that. What caused pterosaurs’ demise is clear: The same asteroid that wiped out the non ...

BIOL.1110 Principles of Biology I, and BIOL.1120 Principles of Biology II, and Co-req: BIOL.3440L Comp. Vertebrate Anatomy Lab.