The Marine Vertebrate Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (ASIH Collection Code: SIO) maintains approximately two million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing ...

Marine vertebrates must surface to transmit data (Holland et al. 2009). Tri-axial accelerometer tags record detailed three-dimensional movements of tagged animals. This generates a thorough ...

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

Many air-breathing marine vertebrates optimize their swim depth when transiting and not feeding, traveling just deep enough to avoid wave creation on the surface. Credit: Phillip Island Nature Parks.

Ahlstrom, E.H., and H.G. Moser. 1969. A new gonostomatid fish from the tropical eastern Pacific. Copeia 1969(3):493-500. Allen, G.R., and D.R. Robertson. 1999 ...

These familiar marine arthropods first arose about 545 ... primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in Canada, Greenland, and China have ...

Mosasaurs are extinct marine lizards, spectacular examples of which were first discovered in 1766 near Maastricht in the Netherlands, fueling the rise of the field of vertebrate palaeontology (the ...