Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

The evolution of the neck in vertebrates: a key innovation for conquering terrestrial environments. Vertebrates (animals with vertebrae) constitute a large group of animals including fish ...

Fossil footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history Date: January 8, 2010 Source: Uppsala University Summary: The discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in ...

Discovery Called Key Evidence Of Vertebrates' Ocean Origins. April 6, 2006. By Guy Gugliotta. Scientists yesterday reported discovering an evolutionary "missing link" between fish and land animals ...

The lungfishes' genome, however, is among the largest of all animals. ... Giant Lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates. Doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03198-8 ...

On the Land, One-quarter of Vertebrates Die Because of Humans. 02/08/2019. Humans have a "disproportionate effect" on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more ...

Loss of land-based vertebrates is accelerating Date: June 1, 2020 Source: Stanford University Summary: Analysis of thousands of vertebrate species reveals that extinction rates are likely much ...

As vertebrates made the transition from the oceans to land, their tails were really helpful, according to a new study that uses robots to make its case. News Home Page ...

DNA from the retinas of lungfish, the closest living relatives to the first terrestrial vertebrates, is closer to retinal DNA from land animals than to retinal DNA from fish. The first land ...

When faced with a slightly lower temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Celsius, approximately 28.8 percent of land animals will face extreme heat beyond anything they’ve historically experienced.

Then as vertebrates moved onto land roughly 400 million years ago, things got more complicated. Like if you’ve ever been swimming at a public pool, you might’ve noticed how much quieter ...