A new study gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings identify a gene that plays a central role in the evolution of limb development in vertebrates. By manipulating ...

If you want to see concrete evidence of evolution, look no further than your hand or your foot. Five fingers, five toes. There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits at the end of their ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a ...

Fins and limbs and fins into limbs : the historical context, 1840-1940 / Peter J. Bowler -- Skeletal changes in the transition from fins to limbs / Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta -- A historical ...

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. Tetrapods evolved from fish and were the earliest ...

University of Kentucky College of Medicine researchers were part of a new study that gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings, published in Current Biology Oct. 4, ...

The assembly of the volant bird body plan from the ancestral bulky dinosaurian condition is an enduring topic of evolutionary biology. The body plan of volant birds demonstrates a pronounced decrease ...

A unique study imaging brain activity in children born with upper limb difference—for example, one hand—has shown the amazing ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct ...