Deep within the dense foliage of Papua New Guinea lives the world’s smallest vertebrate. Meet Paedophryne amauensis, a ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

Hummingbirds and their Asian and African counterparts, sunbirds, feed by sticking their tongues and beak tips into pools of ...

Direct survival benefits in larger groups rather than kin-selected indirect fitness primarily drive the evolution of division of labor in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, particularly under harsh ...

The Greenland shark can live for centuries in near darkness, and for a long time scientists assumed its vision must be poor ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates—amniotes and lissamphibians—which ...

Researchers suggest tunneling may reflect a conserved strategy adopted by specialized migratory cell types in dense tissues.

The world's smallest lizard and other tiny lizards in the world represent the most amazing evidence offered by nature as ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils in southwestern China that could rewrite the history of the origin of complex animal life on Earth. The finds date from 554 to 539 million years old and belong ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

New research shows that birds investing more energy in reproduction age faster and live shorter lives than those investing less.