I have written before about the perfect Halloween-appropriate coffee table book. “The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates” by Steve Huskey (Johns Hopkins University Press) ...

"The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

But in a new book he looks beyond dinosaurs to think about bones more expansively. He explores the evolutionary origins of bones, and the way they gave vertebrates the ability to diversify on land and ...

Half a billion years ago, our ancestors grew a spine. The evolution of an internal skeleton marks a milestone in the history of life on Earth. From wriggly, worm-like fishes, ancient animals that ...

Paleontologists describe a 255-million-year-old weigeltisaurid fossil that likely glided through the air with the help of expansive winglike membranes Tess Joosse Scientists pulled this weigeltisaurid ...

THIS work, belonging to the Cambridge Zoological series, was reviewed at length in the issue of NATURE for July 15, 1897 (vol. lvi., p. 245), at the time of its original publication. The present ...