Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

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Humans have a ''disproportionately huge effect'' on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent of the deaths among an array of species all over ...

The fossil of an ancient sea squirt found in a collection at the Utah Museum of Natural History turned out to be the oldest of its kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The small teeth lining cichlid fishes’ throats won’t make it into any baby scrapbooks, but the nubs have helped researchers figure out how vertebrates got their chompers. Research has uncovered what ...

A new study warned that 15% to 30% of the Philippines’ land-dwelling vertebrates could disappear, putting amphibians and mammals in particular danger.

Natural history museums provide an incredible look at the world around us, though as researchers look toward the future, these museums may sometimes seem like they’re stuck in the past... stuffy, ...

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Because we're a member of the group, it's easy to see vertebrates as the pinnacle of evolution, a group capable of producing bats, birds, and giant whales in addition to ourselves. But when they first ...

ABOUT 370m years ago, in the latter part of the Devonian period, the ancestor of all land vertebrates stepped out of the ocean and began to take advantage of the untapped riches found ashore. This was ...