A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which ...

A vulture culture began to roost on campus and around the state with the advent of a new program started by the University of ...

Researchers have long known that diet exerts a profound influence on health, including the risk of developing cancer. A new ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates. They ...

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly ...

Explore the fascinating process of python digestion and how these reptiles regenerate their intestines after every meal.

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...