Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

then put the skeleton back together both physically and digitally. “Though some vertebrate species are very familiar to the public and to scientists, there are many more for which we know ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often ...

New research from the University of Chicago reveals that teeth may have evolved from sensory armor in ancient fish.

an internal skeleton typically made of bone and found in vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. (See otherworldly photos of animal skeletons.) These structures ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

Sharing an evolutionary lineage with vertebrates, starfish serve as powerful models for studying the development of endoskeletons. Their skeletons ... German and European animal protection law.

An expert in skeletal development, structure and function in vertebrate animals ... "tesserae," packed together to cover the skeleton. So, as the animals grow, does the skeleton make existing ...

all of these animals have one thing in common. They're all vertebrates. And that means they all have a spine inside their body. They also have an internal skeleton made up of either bones ...

Blue whales are the biggest animals ... vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ. Strangely enough, B. dacnis’ skeleton ...

That skeleton is what makes us vertebrates. And Haridy wanted to know ... In other words, says Haridy, "What problem are these two animals solving that gave them such similar structures?" ...