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1,544 results for: Vertebrates

  1. Darwin’s Tongues

    Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Life

    Robins reject red glowing grub

    Parasitic worms induce a color change in their caterpillar victims that's literally repulsive to predators.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Life

    Evolutionary genetic relationships coming into focus

    Researchers have filled in about 40 percent of the tree of life for mammals and birds, but other vertebrates lag behind.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Paleontology

    The hunchback of central Spain

    An exquisitely preserved dinosaur from central Spain has a hump on its back and suggestions of featherlike appendages on its arms. The primitive carnivore lived about 125 million years ago and may push back the first known instance of feathers on the dinosaur family tree.

    By Gwyneth Dickey
  5. Earth

    Moby Dick meets Jaws

    A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.

    By Sid Perkins
  6. Life

    Saber-toothed cats strong-armed prey

    Smilodon fatalis used strong forelimbs to pin victims, an analysis of fossils shows.

    By Gwyneth Dickey

  7. Moody tunes

    To explore the effect that music has on the mind, Science News asked researchers to share a song they enjoy and the emotion it evokes.  Ethan Ross, physicianSong: “Dark Star” by the Grateful Dead Emotion: “Elation, euphoria and wonder.” Virginia Naples, vertebrate paleontologist Song: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot Emotion: “Sadness […]

    By Science News
  8. Life

    Pterosaurs might have soared 10,000 miles nonstop

    Flight analysis suggests ancient reptiles were record setters.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Life

    Climate changes, and there goes the neighborhood

    The ranges of rattlesnakes and voles are likely to shift drastically with warming, analyses of past changes suggest.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Life

    Chicken cells have strong sense of sexual identity

    In birds, hormones may not be the last word in determining males and females.

    By Susan Milius
  11. Paleontology

    Dinos molted for a new look

    In one species, adolescents appear to have sprouted a new type of feathers as they matured.

    By Sid Perkins
  12. Life

    For ducks, penis length depends on the other guys

    Male genitals grow longer with more competition from other males.

    By Susan Milius