Turtles, tortoises and terrapins are all names used for hard-shelled, egg-laying reptiles. This month's River Life column ...

WUHAN -- A collaborative study between Chinese and US scientists has revealed that horned dinosaurs experienced a decline in ...

Shark and ray products now rival the fin trade in value, but with many species threatened, conservation requires immediate, ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how the spinal column forms in developing vertebrates, ...

Polar bears once roamed Great Britain, a new analysis of ancient bones and fossils has revealed. Bones and teeth discovered ...

A tiny lizard fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, is 205 million years old. It shifts Squamata origins back by 35 million ...

There are about 28,000 species of bony fishes — the largest taxonomic group of vertebrates — and they have been around for a ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we ...

Four southern giant hornets have turned up in Spain. Similar stingers, known for honeybee attacks, had the Pacific Northwest on edge a few years ago.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a report, Global Status of Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras, ...

Million-Year-Old ‘Swamp Dweller’ From Dinosaur-Era Discovered in Colorado, Experts Call It a ‘Rare Find’ A team of ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...