New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The latest installment in the blockbuster film franchise introduced audiences to a cute and tiny herbivore known as an ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

These reptiles' bones glow under blacklights, and so do yours! And while glowing bones is an evolutionary coincidence, some vertebrates have evolved to use it to their advantage. Hosted by: Hank Green ...

As habitats and hosts keep vanishing, the bloodsuckers are turning to us for a free meal.

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...

When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...

On03, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The 130-million-year-old fossil ...