UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Amy Boddy and her collaborators are working to gain insight on this and other cancer ...

Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil ...

They made it official by naming the frog Brachycephalus dacnis. At only 7 millimeters in length, B. dacnis are the ...

This makes the vampire bat a very unusual animal indeed, since most vertebrates rely primarily on the metabolism of ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves in a dazzling variety of textures and hues. But ...

Bats fed with cow’s blood. The researchers measured the bats’ metabolism using oxygen intake and carbon dioxide expiration ...

A local Secret Santa is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season and the East Idaho News ...

Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the "boring ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...