Over the years, numerous hypotheses for how vertebrates first appeared and developed have emerged, Jiang tells The Scientist. “Any progress about the [yunnanozoan’s] phylogenetic position is key to ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

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First described in 1890 ... suggests that Palaeospondylus australis holds significant clues about early vertebrate evolution. While its exact classification remains elusive, researchers believe ...

“First of all, their back is so short and their legs are so long that they couldn’t walk like other quadrupeds,” says Kevin Padian, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of ...

This little fish is one of the most beautiful fossils there, and finding the first vertebrate among the abundant plant and insect fossils was a real surprise. Having F. brocksi named after me is a ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

Fish can’t move its head independent of the body. Amphibians are the first vertebrates to have a neck, even if it is short & stout. Linked with this advance is a more flexible cranial-vertebral joint.

In 1972, Judith Harris joined the UCM, spearheading a revitalized teaching program. Harris introduced the first vertebrate paleontology laboratory classes, allowing students to study real fossil ...

to pursue the ambitious goal of producing a reference genome assembly for each of the extant vertebrate species on Earth. In the first phase of the project, the VGP has been focused on testing and ...