The 500-million-year-old primitive fish without bones or teeth has surprisingly advanced anatomical features. “Based on the ...

In a new study, US researchers shed light on what they call an "explosion" of animal color signals over the past 100 million ...

Assumptions that may seem self-evident are not always accurate when it comes to the evolution of vertebrate brains.

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

Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual ...

A three-quarter inch fossil discovered in Utah may hold the key to the origin of Earth’s vertebrates, a pair of scientists believe. The found fossil could show the growth of animal life during ...

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

Next time you’re walking through fallen leaves in a forest, keep an eye out for the Eastern red-backed salamander—a small ...

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Osaka University have discovered for the first time that germ cells, the cells that develop into eggs in females and sperm in males, drive ...