These animals, called "downers," may be suffering from "broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, fractured vertebral column," and more. Nevertheless, the slaughterhouse is ...

Animals such as birds and lizards show great ... the development of the skeleton in mammals, focusing on the vertebral column in sloths. The scientists found that in all mammals except for sloths ...

The key to their flight is a strong vertebral column and tail area ... (See otherworldly photos of animal skeletons.) These structures store crucial minerals, such as calcium; provide support ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how the spinal column forms in developing vertebrates, according to a study published in Developmental Cell. If you've ever seen a ...

All animals on which we carried out this technique ... Using the nippers, we gently open the dorsal side of the spinal column by making one or two snips on either side and clipping the resulting ...

Tunicates are animals that bridge the gap between invertebrates ... we have a spinal cord encased in a hard, protective vertebral column. Birds, fish, frogs, snakes are also vertebrates.