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Researchers in the United Kingdom and Canada announce the discovery of the oldest known vertebrate, a creature that lived about 505 million years ago. This finding makes the animal the ancestor of all known vertebrates that ever lived, including humans.
The fossil was discovered in the Yoho National Park, Canada, i... |
6 March 2012
07:50 GMT |
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A forest floor in Papua New Guinea revealed the smallest vertebrate ever discovered on the surface of the planet. The tiny frog is smaller than the smallest fish, and is now known Paedophryne amanuensis. Though discovered nearly 3 years ago, it took experts a long time to present their findings to the world.
Herpeto... |
12 January 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) want to put all vertebrate specimens available around the world in the digital environment. They are considering this massive body of data in the cloud, where researchers from all over the planet could access it more easily.The goal is to promote scientifi... |
24 August 2011
06:01 GMT |
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In a paper entitled “Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy,” which is published in the latest issue of the top scientific journal Nature, experts say that the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates was the complex reorganization of their brains and sense organs.... |
18 August 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Numerous monocles popped from experts' eye sockets when a research team announced the discovery of living algae inside cells of equally-alive salamanders. Arguably, this is the most advanced type of symbiosis ever discovered in vertebrates. The discovery was made in the common spotted salamander, which wasn'... |
5 April 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Despite being separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, humans and fish apparently still retain the same patterns of gene expression, even if the mechanisms and end results involved have little to nothing in common. In a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto, in Canada, and l... |
6 January 2011
07:05 GMT |
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According to a survey presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan, it would appear that 20 percent of all vertebrate on the planet are currently being threatened with extinction. The work also suggests that current conservation efforts are effective in curbing this trend, in the areas ... |
27 October 2010
05:45 GMT |
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The human heart is a mystery from many points of view. It produces a complex electrical field all on its own, and is the only muscle in the body that never takes a break from its chores. It comprises an intricate web of various types of cells, which all work together to keep the heart beating. Scientists have for man... |
30 July 2010
06:33 GMT |
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers managed to establish the fact that the evolutionary starting point for all modern vertebrates was set some 360 million years ago. The scientists say that, at that time, a massive extinction of fish species took place, paving the way for the emergence of the first vertebr... |
18 May 2010
04:44 GMT |
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A group of American researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has recently made huge progress in understanding how vision in higher animals, including humans, developed. The experts looked at a member of an ancient group of sea creatures, called the hydra, in order to gain some more insigh... |
13 March 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Maotherium asiaticus is the name Chinese and American researchers gave to a newly discovered fossil species, which lived in the Liaoning Province of China some 123 million years ago. The chipmunk-sized creature was found in the Yixian Formation, a very rich fossil bed that had yielded countless amazing discoveries ov... |
9 October 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Life on Earth did not experience a “booming” start, with countless species appearing at once, but rather gradually, with nature trying and failing several times over before finally coming up with viable organisms. Such was the case with the first creatures who got out of the seas, and attempted to walk on... |
7 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The sea lamprey is one of the weirdest fish in the oceans, and is a direct descendant of animals that lived millions of years ago. This earned it the classification of “living fossil,” because it also looks very strange, as if from a different time. Now, researchers have discovered that there's more ... |
23 June 2009
02:27 GMT |
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A group of amoeba-shaped creatures called Placozoans has recently “dethroned” sea sponges from their position as the closest living creatures to Earth's original animals, the base of the evolutionary tree line, the point of origin for every other animal species that came after it. A new analysis show... |
27 January 2009
06:59 GMT |
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