Fossilization is a tricky business; some species preserve only a few bones, while others are discovered with a ...

A new study, led by researchers at Arizona State University, explores the relationship between diet, blood sugar ...

the VGP aims to produce a high-quality reference genome assembly for each of the 71,657 named vertebrate species. Currently, about 3 assemblies are produced per week and this will be scaled up to ...

The mysterious Greenland shark has an unusually long lifespan, and scientists are beginning to think they finally know why.

The Serra do Assuruá is in the north-central region of the Bahia state of Brazil, on the country’s east coast. The research ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

The world’s biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Population sizes of vertebrate species measured by the Living Planet Index (LPI) have more than halved in little more than 40 years. The LPI, ...

China has emerged as a global hotspot for pterosaur research, with a series of discoveries that have advanced the study of ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A new ...

"This is Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Marine Vertebrate collection. When we say Marine Vertebrate, things with a ...