Incongruence between different phylogenomic analyses is the main challenge faced by phylogeneticists in the genomic era. To reduce incongruence, phylogenomic studies normally adopt some data filtering ...

Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human connection to marine organisms that goes back millions of years. Both studies were conducted in the ...

Vertebrates are animals with a backbone. You are a vertebrate. And now, a researcher has formally described the world’s tiniest vertebrate — a new species of frog.

The India's smallest land vertebrate, a 10-millimeter frog, has been discovered in a mountain range in Western India. Indian land vertebrates (all animals with backbone except fishes), comprises of ...

The unprecedented discovery of an ancient lamprey growth series, published in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, is overturning long-held ideas as to what modern lampreys may tell us about ...

From Fish to Human: The March of Vertebrate Life in China Corwin Sullivan, Wang Yuan and Brian Choo. Popular Science: 2015. China's rich fossil resources have supplied many firsts — discoveries that ...