A small team of biologists at Stanford University has found evidence that approximately one-third of all vertebrate ...

A 55-million-year-old frog fossil, Litoria tylerantiqua, has been uncovered in Australia, pushing back the timeline of tree ...

A newly identified species of dinosaur is helping researchers clarify the still-mysterious evolution of the fearsome ...

A newly discovered fossil in Mongolia, dubbed the “dragon prince,” reveals a missing link in the tyrannosaur family and reshapes their story.

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to notorious apex predators like T. rex.

Litoria tylerantiqua, a 55-million-year-old fossil, is Australia’s oldest known tree frog. It shifts the timeline for frog ...

A remarkably well-preserved fossil found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ever discovered in Europe.

In the tree for the SLC30A family, the member SLC30A8 has coelacanth and elephant shark as closest relatives. Such slight variations in clustering are not unusual in evolutionary analyses of ...

All vertebrates – animals with backbones ... It’s not the same as making a family tree, but the idea is similar. If I make a family tree, I might find an ancestor that’s the same for ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species ... professor from Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...

implying blastula and neural crest stem cells evolved at the beginning of the vertebrate family tree. The researchers hypothesized that pou5, which was in both lamprey and Xenopus blastula cells ...

In vertebrates, the only organ that fits that ... They ended up with a new — and controversial — family tree. Giovanni Mussini, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge and a member ...