Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

Fossil finds are exciting moments that sometimes introduce the world to an ancient mammal or dinosaur that existed millions ...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a 'bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- according to a new study that revises the ...

A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species reaches its first milestone by publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes. It's one of the ...

A research team at Yunnan University has resolved a longstanding mystery regarding Earth’s earliest vertebrates, revealing ...

The fossil vertebrate collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) was initially built by vertebrate paleontologists in the University of Colorado (CU) Department of ...