Vertebrates are animals with a backbone. You are a vertebrate. And now, a researcher has formally described the world’s tiniest vertebrate — a new species of frog.

If you've ever seen a dolphin swim, you may have wondered why they undulate their bodies up and down when swimming, instead of side to side as fishes do. Though they have a fishlike body, cetaceans (a ...

A study by a group of researchers at the University of Kentucky in collaboration with scientists in four other countries has been published in Nature. Their study is titled "The hagfish genome and the ...

The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...

Vertebrates are defined as all animals that possess a vertebral column, or backbone. Most living vertebrates also possess jaws, teeth and paired fins or limbs. Fossils of the earliest vertebrates help ...

Caption, Sept. 1988-Sept. 1989 has variant name of the museum: Museum of Natural History. Vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1989) called 2nd ed. revised; v. 9, nos. 1,2 (Jan./Mar ...