There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...

The most effective conservation strategies for protecting vertebrates on a global scale are those aimed at mitigating the effects of overexploitation, habitat loss and climate change, which are the ...

We’re only in the early stages of 2026, and one massive change from last year may have already occurred: there may actually ...

New research uncovers a hybrid visual cell in deep-sea fish, challenging the traditional rod-cone dichotomy in vertebrates. These cells, discovered in larvae of certain Red Sea fish, mix the ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of vertebrate teeth.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine - including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians - evolved. In a paper ...

A research team at Yunnan University has found that the earliest known vertebrates from the Cambrian Period may have ...

Fossils of the prehistoric fish genus myllokunmingiid, more than 518 million years old, reveal that early vertebrates may have had four functional eyes. Researchers found that two large lateral eyes ...