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

Amphibians have much greater tolerance for variation in salt concentration than do other vertebrates. ii. Behavioral adaptations: shade seeking, selection of cool, moist habitats iii. Permeable skin ...

Molecular mechanisms of verebrate photoreceptor light adaptation. The human visual system can discriminate ... Numerous studies in retinae from cold- and warm-blooded vertebrates have demonstrated the ...

Understanding these adaptations could offer valuable insights into cancer resistance. “Future studies investigating the evolutionary history and mechanisms linking diet, plasma glucose levels and ...

As the earliest vertebrates to conquer the skies, they laid the groundwork for the complex flight adaptations seen in modern birds and bats. The discoveries from Jordan not only illuminate their ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), which was launched in 2017, to pursue the ambitious ...

making the dragonfish an anomaly in vertebrate evolution, the team reported today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Like many creatures that inhabit the dark depths of the sea, dragonfish ...

Our project investigates how the remarkable variation in head morphology across vertebrates—especially among reptiles ... variation and identify patterns associated with ecological adaptation. 2.

In the Evolutionary Paleontology Research Group at the Department of Geosciences and Geography we study the evolution, paleoenvironments and paleoecology of various groups of vertebrates based ...