Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

“The motor neurons that perform fishing behavior were originally dorsal fin motor neurons but moved to an unusual location in ...

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, ...

“Both eyes can peer out from underneath the notch, giving a greater view of their surroundings while still partially shielded ...

Predators and prey in the ocean rely on chemical signals for survival, but this vital sensory mode can also be their Achilles ...

A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator, Carinodens acrodon, a small but ...

FOR long we have accepted as well-established and equivalent the five classes of vertebrate animals, but recent zoological research, particularly on the palaeontological side, has modified many ...

The 2014-2016 Pacific marine heatwave wiped out more than half — roughly four million — of Alaska’s common murre (Uria aalge) seabirds, representing the largest documented vertebrate ...

WE are all agreed that the four-footed terrestrial vertebrates or Tetrapoda have arisen from some fish-like aquatic ancestor. Two chief changes must have occurred in the passage from water to land ...