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 ...

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.

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 ...

UNM Professor Irene Salinas has studied mucosal immune systems in vertebrate animals for a long time. Her laboratory, which mostly works with rainbow trout, investigates the interactions between ...

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 ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

However, because of the long-lasting interest in conventional laboratory animal models such as the mouse, there is no general genetic or developmental model of craniofacial evolution and ...