A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known evidence of advanced, camera-like eyes in vertebrates. Dating back 443 ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

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Researchers report that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin -- and, by extension, our large, complex brains. The team found that a retrovirus-derived genetic element or 'retrotransposon' is ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Essay covers the early history of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology in the United States ...

Scientists have investigated lamprey embryos using cutting-edge microscopic techniques to reveal interesting insights about vertebrate head evolution, clarifying an unresolved mystery in basic science ...

The first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils found in Texas have been discovered by a team led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, filling a major missing puzzle piece to the state’s ...