We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition Step aside World Cup heroes, there’s a bigger global ...

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless, eel-like fish whose body plan has barely changed in ...

The fossil vertebrate collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) was initially built by vertebrate paleontologists in the University of Colorado (CU) Department of ...

IT is more than sixty years (1877) since the appearance of the first general text-book on “The Morphology of the Skull” by Parker and Bettany, a work excellent in its day but now out of date. The most ...

Between eight and 14 feet but can reach up to 23 feet Using this method, scientists discovered Greenland sharks have a life expectancy of at least 272 years and could reach 392, give or take about 120 ...

Normal stools on the Bristol Stool Chart include Types 3 and 4. Eating a high-fiber diet and establishing a bathroom routine can help regulate your bowel movements. Signs to see a doctor for abnormal ...

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...