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1,544 results for: Vertebrates

  1. Dressing up dinos

    Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.

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  2. Paleontology

    Small ancestor of giant sauropods unearthed

    Fossils suggest that the bipedal dinosaur occasionally walked on all fours and could open its mouth wide to gather foliage.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Bees forage with their guts

    Researchers show that a gene helps honeybees choose between nectar and pollen.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Genome 10K: A new ark

    Featured blog: Researchers are working to catalog the DNA sequences of just about every vertebrate genus.

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  5. Life

    Vertebrates, perhaps even humans, share teeth genes

    Researchers have uncovered what may be a shared genetic toolkit for teeth, one common among vertebrates and mammals, including humans

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Bone-preserving drug passes tests in men, women

    New drug limits bone fractures in elderly women and men fighting prostate cancer

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  7. Paleontology

    Fish death, mammal extinction and tiny dino footprints

    Paleontologists in Bristol, England, at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology report on fish fossils in Wyoming, the loss of Australia’s megafauna and the smallest dinosaur tracks.

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  8. All Patterns Great and Small

    Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.

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  9. Life

    Carnations had evolutionary bloom boom in Europe

    New species have evolved at a surprisingly rapid pace, new study suggests

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  10. Horse genome added to growing list of barnyard genetics projects

    Equines join cucumbers and pigs as the most recent additions to the roster of organisms to have their complete DNA code spelled out. The new work on horses also helps answer a key question about chromosome structures called centromeres.

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  11. Animals

    Turtles make sense after all

    The odd bodies of turtles add a wrinkle to standard land-dwelling vertebrates.

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  12. Paleontology

    Bird in the hand

    Fossilized fingers strengthen evolutionary link between dinosaurs and avian relatives.

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