A hidden genetic shift may have helped spark the rise of animals with backbones. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

An illustration of a four-eyed myllokunmingid, a jawless fish that lived more than 500 million years ago Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

Swin-Chart is a Swin Transformer-based model for chart classification across various datasets. It achieved first place in the chart classification task at the ICDAR 2023 CHART Infographics competition ...

A new study warns that 15-23% of the Philippines’ 1,294 terrestrial vertebrates face extinction, with amphibians and mammals at highest risk. Endemic species are most vulnerable, yet many lesser-known ...

B.W. and S.W.R. were supported by the NSF [grant number 1616878]. We thank multiple anonymous reviewers for helpful critique and suggestions. Note: The article usage is presented with a three- to four ...

Larger brains generally improve sensory, motor, and cognitive functioning, but this does not explain why brain size shows marked variation across vertebrate classes and increased over evolutionary ...

The film discusses the characteristics and classifications of chordates, a group of animals that includes vertebrates and some simpler forms. Key features of chordates include a pharyngeal breathing ...