Like the icy ocean depths it inhabits, the Greenland shark is ancient, vast, and hella mysterious. Thanks to a new study from ...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a powerful vertebrate model for studying kidney development and regeneration due ...

Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's ancient life, revealing the origins and evolution of complex organisms. Discoveries like ...

Cyborg tadpoles could provide new insights into brain development and help to understand diseases that manifest in early development.

Zebrafish The key to understanding vertebrate development and the origins of human birth defects may lie with the fishes--that is, with the zebrafishes (Danio rerio). Using zebrafish mutants produced ...

Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering discoveries about how mechanical stress shapes the ultrastructure of starfish skeletons. Published in Acta ...

Cell cycle length governs both erasure and re-establishment of heterochromatin during early development in non-mammalian vertebrates. Schematic summarizing the model of H3K9me3 reprogramming in ...

“The vertebrate body plan probably had a much more protracted assembly than we thought.” Karma Nanglu, a paleontologist at Harvard who was not involved in the new study, said that it was ...

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 ...

How did vertebrate heads evolve? The first vertebrates all evolved from filter-feeding ancestors over 500 million years ago. Unlike their ancestors, they had brains, a spinal cord along their back, ...

The anatomy of cephalochordates is considered vertebrate-like, but simpler, having a prototypical chordate body plan. Chordate synapomorphies, present in amphioxus and vertebrates, include a dorsal ...

Fish fossils from Western Australia preserve the oldest 3-D hearts, livers, stomachs and intestines in a jawed vertebrate ...