As fish evolved into four-limbed creatures, their skull separated from their shoulders to form a neck. Now we learn that this ...
Material tests on lake sturgeon reveal that the earliest land-dwelling vertebrates had surprisingly rigid necks, suggesting ...
The history of life on Earth is filled with tales of intrepid organisms that broke into new territories and niches to secure an evolutionary edge. One of the most dramatic examples is the colonization ...
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...
Most of us would recognize a human brain, but what about the brain of a frog or fish? Given the vast diversity of life on Earth, there are some weird and wonderful brains out there. Despite this, the ...
Most of us would recognise a human brain, but what about the brain of a frog or fish? Given the vast diversity of life on Earth, there are some weird and wonderful brains out there. Despite this, the ...