Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

These days, all fish have teeth. The shapes of their teeth vary according to diet, ranging from the little pegs of goldfish ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Scientists have revealed new details about ancient fish more than 400 million years old, which became the ancestors of ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

The scientific community unravels the mystery of bradykinin, a molecule found in both vertebrates and some venoms, revealing its evolutionary significance. Bradykinin's recurring evolution in ...

A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...

Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators – a discovery researchers say contributes to a shifting ...