The film discusses the characteristics and classifications of chordates, a group of animals ... life in amphibians and the skeletal similarities across different vertebrates, illustrating how ...

a key innovation for conquering terrestrial environments Vertebrates (animals with vertebrae) constitute a large group of animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Earth’s amphibians are in serious ... are Earth’s most threatened class of vertebrates. This second report confirms that the smooth-skinned animals are still more threatened than birds or ...

Vertebrates, for example, are divided into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair or fur and can produce milk to feed their young. They have ...

Climate change threatens amphibians globally with extreme weather destroying breeding habitats and increasing mortality.

When it comes to longevity, scientists have long suspected that scaly and slimy vertebrates have an edge ... and a number of other reptiles and amphibians can live more than a century.

"Amphibians are the most endangered group of vertebrates worldwide ... it was much less than the variation reported for other animals like dragonflies, fishes and birds. The authors suggested ...

Chytridiomycosis, the most deadly disease afflicting vertebrates in recorded history, has wreaked havoc on amphibians for decades ... The disease may be killing off animals in hordes without ...

That includes monitoring animals that belong to an "indicator ... are due to their skin being more permeable than other vertebrates. Some amphibians lack lungs all together and fully depend ...

A stunningly-preserved, half-billion year old fossil of a strange Cambrian creature could shift our understanding of how a sister group to vertebrates ... Alligator-size amphibians died together ...