The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

Biological sciences researchers from the U of A have led the publication of a paper that expands our understanding of sensory ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

Thanks to advances in satellite tagging and archival data loggers, we can now track movements of individual sharks, whales, sea ... animal interactions in air-breathing animals. Marine vertebrates ...

This elusive deep-sea predator, found in the frigid waters ... but we didn’t expect that it would be the longest-living vertebrate animal,” Nielsen said. These sharks inhabit the cold, stable ...

Based on the numerous fossils that have been found, this sea creature seemingly ... but the point in time at which these animals branched away from the phylum of chordata, which lack the rigid ...

Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ... with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone inside their body. The major groups include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Slide 1 of 5, , Mammals: Lions, humans and dolphins Mammals breathe through their lungs, are warm-blooded, give birth to live babies and have ...