Goetze: Two types of regional fishes are considered primitive and have existed in freshwater systems for millions of years.

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Amy Boddy and her collaborators are working to gain insight on this and other cancer ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, ...

What is the "most Canadian" animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. Published in the journal The Canadian ...

One of the most striking aspects of the tuatara is its slow, steady pace of life. These reptiles are built for longevity, ...

From evading predators to withstanding natural disasters, animals have been using burrows for over 500 million years.

Many animals, including apex predators ... which increased at both faster and slower speeds presenting a J-shaped relationship. As the most diverse vertebrate group, fish species have an immense ...

The World Wildlife Fund has publishd its latest Living Planet Index, showing a continuing decline in biodiversity, days ...

Cancer prevalence rates varied widely across vertebrate species and generally increased with higher adult mass and decreased ...

Long before birds, pterosaurs were the first true flying vertebrates. While they are ... they likely preyed on insects and other small animals. CREDIT: Rudolf Hima “Early pterosaurs were highly ...

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose.   Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University ...