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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Some animals in the world possess the ability to regenerate tissues, allowing them to regrow parts of limbs or entire limbs ...

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

A British dinosaur convention is banning paleontologists named in the Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the ...

Scientists have recognized snails’ regenerative abilities for centuries. In 1766, a researcher documented that decapitated garden snails could regrow their entire heads. Despite that long history, ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...