Researchers found that these dinosaur-era flying reptiles developed an evolutionary pathway independent of that observed in ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

Take a drive across New Mexico’s sweeping plains and you are likely to encounter a songbird whose name suits a slasher film.

Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! After discussing odd animal-derived substances last week (for now), we’re going back to natural phenomena for this edition.

A study shows that bumblebees can be trained to tell the difference between long and short light flashes. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered, for the first time, that an ...

Bucknell University Professor Jeffrey Trop, geology and environmental geosciences, is one of the recipients of a National ...

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...

Two very different pterosaur species from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are reshaping how scientists picture the Late Cretaceous ...

Scientists compared genomes from 154 animal species and found that land animals share genetic tricks for surviving outside water.

The film discusses the characteristics and classifications of chordates, a group of animals that includes vertebrates and some simpler forms. Key features of chordates include a pharyngeal breathing ...

A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of new structures such as limbs and the neck. Lateral and dorsal views of ...