New research from the University of Chicago shows that dentin, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored ...

They are very simple members of the phylum chordata,” said Coastal Carolina University marine science professor Juliana Harding.

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through ...

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Hitherto, BN-type peptides and their cognate G protein–coupled receptors have only been identified in chordates. Here, we report the discovery and functional characterization of a BN-type signaling ...

Using fossil evidence and genetic dating, geneticists and paleontologists have backed strikingly different candidates for the world's first animal. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

All chordates, such as vertebrates, eel-like lancelets, and tunicates, or sea squirts, at some point in their lives have a flexible, rod-shaped nerve structure called a notochord in their backs.

All chordates, such as vertebrates, eel-like lancelets, and tunicates, or sea squirts, at some point in their lives have a flexible, rod-shaped nerve structure called a notochord in their backs.

In 2011 a British microbiologist named Meredith Jones discovered a possible new phylum, aptly named Cryptomycota, which was previously dark. (For reference, the class of mammals is a subgroup of ...

The Middle Cambrian chordate known as Pikaia gracilens was once thought to be humanity’s earliest known ancestor, and the earliest known member of the phylum Chordata. Now, a new study flips ...

“Also known as a finger monkey, a pygmy marmoset can leap a distance of 16 feet to get from one tree branch to another.” Pygmy marmosets (also called pigmy monkeys) live in the Amazon forests of South ...