A new initiative funded by the National Science Foundation will yield 3-D images of the external and internal anatomy of 20,000 specimens representing nearly every genus of vertebrate, including ...

In May, the Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy class at East Central University went behind the scenes at the Oklahoma City Zoo’s ...

A revision of the author's A laboratory manual for comparative vertebrate anatomy, intended now to serve as a text as well as a laboratory manual. cf. Pref. to 2d ed STRI copy 8191. I. General ...

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LAWRENCE -- A new endeavor among 16 research institutions will create high-resolution, digital three-dimensional images of internal anatomy across a host of vertebrate biodiversity, making the data ...

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 ...

Researchers have made the first detailed map of the regions into which the brain of one of the most closely-related organisms to the vertebrates is divided and which could give us an idea of what our ...

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

Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the fossil upside down. By Carl Zimmer Over the past 500 million years, ...

The placoderms were a diverse group of ancient armoured fishes and it’s widely believed that they are ancestral to virtually all vertebrates alive today, including humans. Placoderms dominated aquatic ...

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