Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

A jaw bone discovered in Egypt is changing the way scientists think about the origins of the ape family tree. The specimen, ...

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

A study traces the evolution of vertebrate eyes from a worm-like ancestor 600 million years ago. The research explains the ...

Greenland Sharks can live up to 400 years old, and the study of their cells tells a fascinating story about aging.

It's easy to take our eyes for granted. But our recent research shows they took an incredible evolutionary journey to reach ...

Scientists have studied Greenland sharks’ eyesight, particularly for the mystery of their age, using a protein hidden inside the shark’s eye.

Individual Greenland sharks appear to live perhaps a century longer than any other vertebrate, and might have life spans approaching 500 years. By human standards, a few vertebrate species have ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...