A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...
Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...
Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...
How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...
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 ...
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There may be twice as many vertebrate species on Earth as thought, thanks to hidden cryptic species
We’re only in the early stages of 2026, and one massive change from last year may have already occurred: there may actually ...
A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...
For every recognized vertebrate species, there are on average two unrecognized, or "cryptic" species, according to a new ...
Producing reference genomes for all known eukaryotic species (~1.8 million) over the next decade is a daunting task. But the Earth BioGenome Project is hoping to do exactly that. Two separate projects ...
A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws. And the most dangerous predator of them all? A human and their pet bird dancing to “Gangnam Style.” Scientists ...
Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.
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