Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological ...

which are some of the earliest vertebrates (animals with backbones) in which the mouth is fossilized. Their aim was to answer questions about feeding in early vertebrates without jaws in the early ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

Most vertebrates living outside the tropical zone show robust physiological responses in response to seasonal changes in photoperiod, such as seasonal reproduction, molt, and migration. The highly ...

That might seem surprising upon finding out that, when armadillos get jiggy with it, only one egg is fertilized. But, like ...

In mammals, bacterial community may alter gonadal maturation and drive sex-specific differences in gene expression and metabolism. However, bacterial microbiota diversity in the gonads of early ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

At the time, hundreds of millions of years ago, “the earliest vertebrates [were] sort of reptile-like creatures,” and “mammals came out of that, as did dinosaurs and birds and amphibians.” ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Discover the incredible underwater escape strategy of water anole lizards in Costa Rica. Learn how they create air bubbles to ...