Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ. The little guys ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

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 ...

Vertebrates are thought to have emerged during the Cambrian ... says have recently become the standard for the field but haven’t yet been applied to many types of fossils. The researchers focused ...