What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, ...

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a study published in ...

Vertebrates that had already begun adapting to terrestrial life—including amphibians closely related to Fedexia striegeli —became far more abundant, widespread, and diverse than their ...

The discovery of two new species of proto-amphibians in northeastern Brazil has provided new clues about the earliest proliferation of vertebrates on land dating back 278 million years.

Endogenous retroviruses of non-avian/mammalian vertebrates illuminate diversity and deep history of retroviruses. PLOS Pathogens, 2018; 14 (6): e1007072 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007072 ...

A new global assessment of the world's amphibians finds that more than 2 of every 5 known species is at risk of extinction. Habitat loss, disease and climate change are the main drivers.

Salamanders had been the only modern tetrapods or four-legged vertebrates that can regenerate their limbs, tails, and internal organs lost or injured in their lifetime. A large sample of fossils ...

UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been shaped by microscopic melanin pigments.

Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss -- including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a new study published in ...