By Keith Anthony Fabro The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless ...

Vertebrates are defined as all animals that possess a vertebral column, or backbone. Most living vertebrates also possess jaws, teeth and paired fins or limbs. Fossils of the earliest vertebrates help ...

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this ...

Because we're a member of the group, it's easy to see vertebrates as the pinnacle of evolution, a group capable of producing bats, birds, and giant whales in addition to ourselves. But when they first ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

The monster is back! Well, not alive, but back in the scientific spotlight. In 1958 amateur fossil hunter Francis Tully found some strange fossils at the famous Mazon Creek site, about 15 miles ...

World's oldest vertebrate brain found in 319-million-year-old fossil By Michael Irving February 05, 2023 The fossilized skull of a fish, with a penny for scale, contains the oldest preserved brain of ...