UW anthropology doctoral student Charles Koenig, from Silverthorne, Colo., digitally scans specimens for Coe Library Digital Collections and the Museum of Vertebrates’ collaboration for online use by ...

At head of title: British Museum (Natural History). "Edited and prepared for press by Mr. N.B. Kinnear, assistant keeper in the Department of Zoology."--Introd. siris_sil_241078 ...

New CU Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago, documenting an ...

Scientists discover missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University of ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

Researchers have elucidated the evolutionary origins of placodes and neural crests, which are defining features of vertebrates, through lineage tracing and genetic analysis in Ciona intestinalis, a ...

The aptly named resplendent quetzal is prized for its plumage. Golden poison frogs are popular creatures in the pet trade. Pangolin meat is considered a delicacy, and their scales are used in ...