The earliest vertebrates were simple, jawless creatures that resembled today’s lampreys and hagfish. These animals didn’t yet have bones, just flexible cartilage for support. Despite their ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Slide 1 of 5, , Mammals: Lions, humans and dolphins Mammals breathe through their lungs, are warm-blooded, give birth to live babies and have ...

Researchers have long debated about the relationship between avian and mammalian intelligences. One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, including mammals and ...

From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves in a ... of Geneva biologist Michel Milinkovitch visited an Italian animal fair, found scaleless, “naked” bearded dragons for ...

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 ...

Blue whales are the biggest animals on Earth, but have you wondered which is the smallest? Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad ...

Vertebrates are thought to have emerged during the Cambrian explosion around 520 million years ago, but the point in time at which these animals branched away from the phylum of chordata, which lack ...

Naturalist David Attenborough embarks on a 500-million-year journey to track the rise of the vertebrates, which he considers one ... to trace the evolution of animals with backbones. The fossils, ...

Marine vertebrates must surface to transmit data (Holland et al. 2009). Tri-axial accelerometer tags record detailed three-dimensional movements of tagged animals. This generates a thorough ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone inside their body. The major groups include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.