The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

One of the most celebrated fossils in the history of life on Earth has just undergone the most thorough examination it has ...

CHICAGO — A new scientific study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark, Megalodon or megatooth shark, which lived nearly worldwide 15-3.6 million years ago.

THOSE who teach zoology and know the labour of abstracting the works of living comparative anatomists in an effort to amend the mistakes and imperfections of current text-books will find in Miss Hyman ...

A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Albany Museum challenges a long-held hypothesis that the larvae of modern lampreys are a holdover from the distant ...

What: An outreach program started in 2006 that encourages Boston area high school students to pursue higher education in the sciences. In the fall, the lab was "Linking Behavior to Genetics" and the ...

THESE four text-books for elementary students illustrate the trends in the teaching of zoology in the United States. As three of them are second editions they have obviously proved successful in their ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the gap in the fossil record that would explain the evolution from invertebrates to vertebrates. Vertebrates, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, ...

Machine generated contents note: 11.1. Muscular splittings, fusions, paedomorphism, reversions and anatomical complexity -- 11.2. Myological characters and phylogenetic reconstructions -- 11.3.

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The 3D anatomy of the fossilised Ligulalepis skull reveals previously unknown details of the pattern of dermal skull bones, the shape of the brain cavity, and other soft tissue features (such as ...