A 400 million year old fossilised fish skull gives us very early and previously unknown clues about how boney fishes evolved into the vertebrates we see today on Earth - including us humans.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Vertebrates
Displaying all articles
Little skates that 'walk' across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.
A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.
If one venomous snake bites a mouse and injects venom into it, you can then feed that same dead mouse to another snake. The second snake won't die.
Taking the placenta as a case study, researchers are able to piece together how new organs evolve, by repurposing old tissues and using them to do new jobs.
Top contributors
-
Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
-
John Long is a Friend of The Conversation.
Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
-
Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
-
Associate Professor, James Cook University
-
PhD student, University of Birmingham
-
Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
