Vertebrata
The vertebrates are commonly called "animals with backbones," but this is a simplified description of a group of animals who are the most anatomically and functionally diverse...
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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that women who discontinued alendronate after 5 years demonstrated a m...
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The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.The fo...
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The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.The fo...
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HONG KONG, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Large, carnivorous dinosaurs
roamed southern Australia 115 million years ago, when the
continent was joined to the Antarctica, and were padded with
body fat to surviv...
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A British zoo announced Wednesday the virgin birth of five Komodo dragons, giving scientists new hope for the captive breeding of the endangered species.In an evolutionary twist, the newborns' eigh...
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A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures...
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Chinese scientists announced Thursday they have discovered
fossils of a huge, ''bird-like'' dinosaur the size of a Tyrannosaurus
rex in the Gobi Desert of northern China.
The scientists sa...
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South Korea has effectively suspended U.S. beef imports over mad cow concerns after a recent shipment was found to have contained banned parts, a news report said Thursday.The Agriculture Ministry ...
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Berlin (dpa) - A German palaeontologist has found the fossilized
claw of a giant scorpion-like creature that crawled the earth almost
400 million years ago in a quarry ...
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Hamburg (dpa) - An enormous sea-scorpion more than 2 metres long
once roamed the shallow seas of what is now Germany,
according to palaeontologists.
One of th...
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