From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves in a ... of Geneva biologist Michel Milinkovitch visited an Italian animal fair, found scaleless, “naked” bearded dragons for ...

Vertebrates are thought to have emerged during the Cambrian explosion around 520 million years ago, but the point in time at which these animals branched away from the phylum of chordata, which lack ...

Animals are divided into two main groups: Animals with a backbone are called vertebrates. Animals without a backbone are called invertebrates. Vertebrates and invertebrates can be sorted into ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone inside their body. The major groups include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

It also revealed that primary carnivores—animals that mainly consume other vertebrates—are more prone to tumors than herbivores, particularly when domestication is considered. The findings, published ...

Paleobiology professor Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University led the study along with 28 other shark, fossil, and vertebrate anatomy experts from around the globe. Findings from the study are ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human ... Nuclear RNA decay regulates gene expression in cultured cells, but its role in animals is largely unclear. Here, authors found that the ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), which was launched in 2017, to pursue the ambitious ...