A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

Three species that lived about 308 million years ago challenge the idea that the first land vertebrates underwent ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular ...

Biologists have considered nearly every major taxon of animals as the key starting point for the evolution of vertebrates. We survey these ideas, many of which are no longer tenable in the light of ...

Scientists once thought that humans must have 2 million genes to account for all our complexity. But since sequencing the human genome, researchers have learned that humans only have about 19,000 to ...

A better understanding of neuroimmune communication is crucial for identifying conserved and divergent mechanisms across ...

Fossil of Tiktaalin, an extinct fish. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons ...

A major fossil discovery in Canada sheds new light on the development of the earliest vertebrates, including the origin of jaws, the first time this feature has been seen so early in the fossil record ...

In the limestone ranges of Western Australia’s Kimberley region, near the town of Fitzroy Crossing, you’ll find one of the world’s best-preserved ancient reef complexes. Here lie the remnants of ...

The discovery of embryos in certain fossil fishes not only shows that internal fertilization and live birth evolved early in vertebrate history, but also raises questions about the origin of jawed ...

Early vertebrates such as myllokunmingids were small and lacked effective defense mechanisms compared to the large predators ...