All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental ... The study of this development can yield insights into the process of evolution.

Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...

The absence of a notochord, he says, is one factor that has allowed for the many interpretations of yunnanozoan phylogeny, and therefore he says it was “a little bit of a surprise” to see the fish ...

Research in our group investigates a number of questions central to understanding animal evolution and development ... impressive morphological diversity of organs and tissues across vertebrates ?

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes ... of insights into genome evolution in vertebrates.

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

Fosillised scales and teeth of the wealden fish (Lepidotes) found inside the ribs of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri, Surrey © The Trustees of the Natural History ...