Like the icy ocean depths it inhabits, the Greenland shark is ancient, vast, and hella mysterious. Thanks to a new study from ...

Scientists have discovered that the Greenland shark is the longest-living vertebrate. These sharks can live for around 400 ...

Mysteries surround the elusive Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Researchers have new insight into the unique fish’s genetic makeup.

Humans exploit nearly 15,000 other vertebrate species, and 13% of them are either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. No other animal has such an outsized impact on other species.

Our closest non-vertebrate relatives re-established a nerve cord (on the wrong side of the body, naturally) but couldn't be bothered with niceties like a skeleton.

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

First Vertebrate To Live In Trees Described Date: July 29, 2009 Source: Field Museum Summary: In the Late Paleozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

McCoy’s analysis of more than a thousand Tully monster fossils, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that the Tully monster was a vertebrate and had a primitive spinal cord. The announcement ...

Scientists discover ‘unexpected’ 319-million-year-old fossilised vertebrate brain. The findings shed new light into the preservation of soft parts in fossils of backboned animals.