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1,539 results for: Vertebrates

  1. Paleontology

    How pterosaurs took flight

    Extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs may have taken to the air with a technique akin to leapfrogging, new research suggests.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Animals

    We all sing like fish

    From opera singers to toadfish, vertebrates may use basically similar circuitry for controlling vocal muscles.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Life

    Fossil find may document largest snake

    Rocks beneath a coal mine in Colombia have yielded fossils of what could be the world's largest snake, a 12.8-meter–long behemoth that's a relative of today's boa constrictors.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Life

    Fossil helps document shift from sea to land

    New fossils of an ancient, four-limbed creature help fill in the blanks of the evolutionary transition between fish and the first land-adapted vertebrates.

    By Sid Perkins

  5. Humans wonder, anybody home?

    Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.

    By Susan Gaidos
  6. Life

    Step-by-step Evolution

    Hard to find, but very fruitful when found, transitional fossils fill in the gaps in the paleontological record.

    By Sid Perkins

  7. Botanical Whales

    Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too.

    By Susan Milius
  8. Life

    Seeing without eyes

    Scientists are looking into the cellular pathways that allow an eyeless roundworm to see.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  9. Life

    Dinosaur fossil reveals creature of a different feather

    Paleontologists have discovered a fossil partially covered with broad, unbranched filaments — a type of structure previously theorized to exist on primitive feathered dinosaurs but not found until now.

    By Sid Perkins
  10. Life

    Triceratops may have been headbangers

    Lesions on Triceratops fossils are attributed to head-to-head combat in a new study.

    By Sid Perkins
  11. Earth

    Earth: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Earth. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

    By Science News
  12. Animals

    Live fast, die young

    With a lifespan of just five months, the chameleon Furcifer labordi leads a briefer life than any other land-dwelling vertebrate.

    By Amy Maxmen