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

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

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

Get ready to meet 21 incredible reptiles you may never have heard of before! In this article, we'll showcase cool photos and ...

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 ...

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

These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also includes lungfish (fish with lungs) and tetrapods, a group to ...

If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut.

Cancer prevalence rates varied widely across vertebrate species and generally increased with higher adult mass and decreased with longer gestation time, according to results published in Cancer ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri was discovered in the Gogo geological formation, world-renowned as an exceptional fossil site. Gogo is ...

Researchers are building robotic versions of ancient fish skeletons to test how fish started to walk on land 390 million years ago.

Researchers are developing robots inspired by ancient fish to study the water-to-land transition, approximately 390 million ...