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 belong ...

Scientists have discovered that the longest living vertebrates on Earth are Greenland sharks. Researchers used radiocarbon ...

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver or the moose. Researchers have unveiled the most ...

The history of life on Earth dates back more than 500 million years, when complex-structured organisms emerged during the ...

Meanwhile, in favor of Peto’s paradox, animals with longer gestation times, which is associated with bigger bodies, tend to get fewer cancers. The researchers hypothesize that vertebrates that have ...