Becker spent “hundreds upon hundreds of hours” collecting the Devonian age marine invertebrate fossils from the High Mountain area of Wayne, New Jersey, the suit said. Becker needed to send ...

As for the remaining 3,000? “We truly don’t know,” says Saff Killingsworth, a conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Many species haven’t been seen in ...

“Mazon Creek fossils are extraordinarily important to studying the evolution of vertebrates,” Mann says. “A lot of these lineages survived through to today.” Perhaps Illinois’ most ...

Avoiding driving on rainy spring nights will also help protect these fragile vertebrates. Why all the effort to keep some tiny, cold-blooded creatures from being squished in the road? As voracious ...

keeping potted plants on balconies to boost invertebrates and providing water in shallow dishes year-round. They can also plant night-scented flowers, such as mint or jasmine, to attract moths and ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Often called mammal-like reptiles—they looked like a cross between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty of land vertebrates. "We've found fossils of many kinds of ...

Becker claims to have spent "hundreds upon hundreds of hours" collecting the Devonian age marine invertebrate fossils from the High Mountain area of Wayne, New Jersey, and planned to write a ...

A Nervous System that Extends Beyond the Brain Unlike humans and most other vertebrates, which rely on a centralized nervous system controlled by the brain, snakes have a more distributed network of ...

keeping potted plants on balconies to boost invertebrates and providing water in shallow dishes year-round. They can also plant night-scented flowers, such as mint or jasmine, to attract moths and ...