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"Caleb resurrected a statistical technique from a bygone era," said co-author Jacques Gauthier, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and curator-in-charge for vertebrate paleontology at the Peabody Museum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

"Bones are all that is left to us of the vast majority of vertebrate animals that have lived on Earth," Bhullar said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The maximum lifespan can average 400 years, the longest lifespan of any known vertebrate, meaning there are apparently Greenland sharks that are older than the United States.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Together, those findings raise the possibility that the modern vertebrate brain arose when evolution brought two preexisting neural systems into close physical proximity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Interesting. It’s difficult to observe if it’s chemiluminescent vertebrate or bioluminescent bacteria.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

For decades, the prevailing explanation was that necks evolved to give early tetrapods, the ancestors of four-limbed vertebrates, greater control over their heads as they adapted to life outside the water.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Because Tiktaalik is closely related to the earliest vertebrates with limbs, its anatomy provides valuable clues about the evolutionary changes that eventually made life on land possible.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Most scientific knowledge about sleep comes from studying vertebrates, particularly mammals and birds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Although sleep has been extensively studied in humans and other vertebrates, scientists still know relatively little about how it works in animals with very different nervous systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

There are vertebrates, to be sure, but not many.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman