Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

A recent groundbreaking study has revealed an astonishing natural event: terrestrial animals that managed to journey across the Pacific Ocean, covering an immense 8,000 kilometers, to settle on a new ...

Classification allows us to group animals together depending on their similarities and differences. Animals are divided into two main groups: Animals with a backbone are called vertebrates.

The fossil vertebrate collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) was initially built by vertebrate paleontologists in the University of Colorado (CU) Department of ...

Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with ... most successful and enduring of all prehistoric animals. More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega ...