It grew up to 2.6 meters long and lived in the forests and swamps during the Carboniferous period. The high oxygen ... making it one of the first vertebrates to make that leap.

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, long before birds evolved. Their diversity and rule in the air marked them as one of the era’s most successful flying animals.

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

An international team of paleontologists discovered a previously unknown species of ancient mammal, named Ravjaa ishii, in ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of ... Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones) such as humans belong. What sparked this biological ...

China designated April 24 as its Space Day in 2016 to mark the successful launch of its first satellite ... microgravity on protein homeostasis in vertebrates, the research aims to clarify ...

during the Devonian period. These fishes are of extraordinary evolutionary significance because they’re closely related to the ancestors of all tetrapods – the first vertebrates to walk on land. The ...

The Mesozoic Era, often referred to as the “Age of Reptiles,” was a time of incredible biodiversity and evolutionary milestones. Among these were the pterosaurs, the first vertebrates known to have ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...

Not every first overall pick is created equal. And each era changes the way the executives and teams think about the top pick. For instance, only the truly premium positions have been taken with ...