A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of ...

A mother was forced to have three of her limbs amputated when she developed a ‘silent killer’ disease after giving birth to twins. Khedidja Teape, 29 and from south-east London, was overjoyed ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

A woman had to have all four of her limbs amputated after eating contaminated fish. Laura Barajas from California suffered a horrendous ordeal when she reportedly contracted an infection, which placed ...

Those animals went on to become the tetrapods, a broad category of vertebrates with four limbs and distinct digits, including mammals. Most of those mammals have remained land animals but ...