The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

For decades, scientists believed that acoustic communication evolved separately in different groups of vertebrates. Variations in hearing structures and vocal tract morphology supported this idea, ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

Analysis of a 458-million-year-old fossil fish reveals anatomical insights about the vertebrate skull and how skull organization evolved from that of ancestral early vertebrates to that of jawed ...

Scientists discover missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University of ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...