Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass, and disrupts ecological processes, thereby posing challenges for the ...

The Greenland shark can live for centuries in near darkness, and for a long time scientists assumed its vision must be poor ...

A three-quarter inch fossil discovered in Utah may hold the key to the origin of Earth’s vertebrates, a pair of scientists believe. The found fossil could show the growth of animal life during the ...

In times of plenty, it pays to be the big fish in the sea, but after a disaster, smaller is better. US researchers have shown mass extinction events put large vertebrates at a disadvantage compared to ...

The aptly named resplendent quetzal is prized for its plumage. Golden poison frogs are popular creatures in the pet trade. Pangolin meat is considered a delicacy, and their scales are used in ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

Humans have a ''disproportionately huge effect'' on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent of the deaths among an array of species all over ...