A remarkable fossil discovery in northeastern China has revealed a twisted prehistoric food chain – a dinosaur species that ...

A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints ...

Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers review the evidence for individual face recognition in fish and speculate that face identification neural networks are both similar and widespread across ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, about 90 million years ago, has been recorded for the first time in Mongolia.

One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, including mammals and birds — evolved once. In that case, both groups would have inherited the complex neural pathways ...

Therefore, when considering sand flies that have fed on various vertebrates, the amount of blood ingested from each source can vary, influencing DNA recovery and consequently limiting the ability to ...

But its story doesn’t start with humans or even mammals. New research shows that bombesin-like neurohormones have been controlling appetite in animals since long before the first vertebrates ...

In the 1980s, David Attenborough travels to Florida to meet the opossum in this groundbreaking wildlife documentary and discovers how an infant learns the skills it will need for life. Watch the ...

As a vertebrate, the zebrafish possesses many genes that perform the same or similar functions in mammals and therefore also in humans. Approximately 70 percent of zebrafish genes are also present in ...