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

Professor Hesham Sallam co-authored the first documentation of the internal anatomy of amphibious whales that lived more than ...

In several vertebrates, including human, mouse, frog and zebrafish, left-right symmetry-breaking during embryonic development is initiated by a ciliated organ called the Node or left-right organizer.

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 ...

“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 ...

Furthermore, we determined that the elimination-replacement process is dependent on and driven by the autophagy pathway. Altogether, we propose that the whole-body replacement of larval myofibers is ...

Thyroid hormones role in development was first suggested in the 18th century when a relationship between goiter and cretinism was found by F.E. Fodere. But it was Rudolf Virchow work in the late 19th ...

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 ...

Re-analysis of a fossil finds it’s from the earliest vertebrate branch A group of organisms called yunnanozoans had gills, precursor to jaws.

In a new pair of studies in eLife and Development, scientists reveal clues about the evolutionary origin of jaws by studying the embryonic development of zebrafish — an approach known as “evo ...

"Nevertheless, this heterochronic evolution might have facilitated the development of new features like limbs." Kuratani and his research group do not limit their study of early vertebrate ...