So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

The Bupp farm is filled with a variety of winged creatures, each one more clever than the next, which is why columnist Joyce ...

News Family Ask Dr. Universe: Fish, humans and all vertebrates share a common ancestor Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 Methuselah the Australian lungfish lives at the California Academy of Sciences.

The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing year. Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family ...

Vertebrates, including humans, trace their lineage back to ancient fish that lived more than 400 million years ago during the Devonian period (419 million to 359 million years ago).

An international team of scientists has built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird ...

However, they are missing a jaw on their heads. Since most vertebrates have jaws, this difference in sea lampreys makes them crucial for understanding vertebrate evolution.

The pair said the finding and the position of Coccocephalichthys in the vertebrate family tree had "crucial implications for our understanding of brain evolution." Also, it casts doubt over using such ...

While biologists indeed discover new species and genus quite often, discovering an entire family is extremely rare for vertebrates. This new family has two types and a total of four or five species.

Ben Crair on the hoatzin, the bird that is seemingly defying the concept behind the tree of life; B10K, a research group that is trying to sequence the genome of every species of bird; and DNA ...