The raucous calls of the thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) once ricocheted through Mexico’s high-altitude pine forests, but now, their near silence has become deafening. Deforestation ...

Birds 'I'm more hopeful that birds can endure than maybe even our own species': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are the ultimate survivors ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Vertebrate limb morphology often reflects the environment due to variation in locomotor requirements. However, proximal and distal limb segments may evolve differently from one another, reflecting an ...

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This study is conducted by Drs. Wenjin Zhao and Min Zhu (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Drs. Xiaolin Zhang and Yan’an Shen (University of ...

Plants, fungi, and protozoa all fall into their own kingdoms, but cats fall under one of the most diverse and sophisticated kingdoms of all: Kingdom Animalia. This kingdom constitutes every animal all ...

Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale shark genome to generate ...