Little skates that ‘walk’ across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Vertebrates
Displaying 21 - 24 of 24 articles
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
-
Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
-
Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide
-
Senior Lecturer, Evolutionary Biology, University of Sydney
-
Lab Head-Developmental Epigenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute
-
Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
-
Associate Professor, James Cook University
-
Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
-
Assistant professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
-
Reader in Vertebrate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
-
Palaeontologist, Albany Museum (supported by the Millennium Trust and the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, the NRF and the NSCF), Rhodes University
-
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
-
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
-
Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Alberta
-
Molecular biologist and bioinformatician, CSIRO
