The Komodo dragon, a venomous giant lizard native to Indonesian islands, faces endangerment with fewer than 6,000 remaining.

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

Although Nodal, the Lefty proteins and Pitx2 have conserved roles among vertebrates, diverse strategies might have been adopted for setting up asymmetric Nodal expression. The generation of morpho ...

Neuroendocrine signals play a major role in the regulation of energy balance. There is a rapid increase in the discovery of novel peptides with endocrine functions, identified to have important roles ...

Patel) ParaHox gene loci in jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes). Organization of ParaHox gene loci in representative gnathostomes. Genes are depicted as block arrows, with the direction of arrows ...

Despite a general (TTAGGG) n sequence being present in vertebrate telomeres, insects show more diversification of their telomere motif. The relation between ITS and chromosome rearrangements was ...

Sharks, rays, and other chondrichthyans have evolved a remarkable range of reproductive strategies, allowing them to thrive for hundreds of millions of years. Two particularly unusual ...

"We do have some what are called micro-vertebrates. Tiger salamanders were inhabiting these lakes at this particular time. We have big animals and very tiny animals. It's really a nifty little ...

The remarkable discovery centers around the Brahminy Blind Snake, a species that can reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis. This small, elusive creature was found in various ...

After a brief rain 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its claws into the ground. Its tracks now show the oldest-known vertebrate to take on dry land. It also significantly pushes back the date ...

Some reproductive parameters of adult stages of Amblyomma cajennense ticks were studied. The capacity of virgin females to reproduce by parthenogenesis was evaluated, during an experimental ...

While parthenogenesis is common in some invertebrates, like certain insects and crustaceans, it’s relatively rare in vertebrates. However, it has been documented in some fish, amphibians, reptiles, ...