sohkamyung, 3 months ago to science

"A freely available repository of thousands of natural history specimens has been created by researchers in the US.

The openVertebrate (oVert) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a five-year initiative between 18 US institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens using computed tomography (CT) scans"

https://physicsworld.com/a/spectacular-scans-of-thousands-of-vertebrate-specimens-released/

#Science #Vertebrates #Museums

mattotcha, 3 months ago to science

This Insanely Tiny Frog Could Be as Small as Vertebrates Get
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-insanely-tiny-frog-could-be-as-small-as-vertebrates-get #biology #vertebrates #amphibians #frogs #small #tiny

PLOSBiology, 4 months ago to random

When #vertebrates first conquered the land, they encountered a #visual world that was radically different from that of their #aquatic ancestors.

@neurofishh looks at how eyes #evolved to cope with the move from seeing through water to seeing through air.

https://plos.io/495pjaG

mattotcha, 5 months ago to science

Unraveling the evolutionary origins of umami and sweet taste preferences
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-unraveling-evolutionary-umami-sweet.html #biology #evolution #taste #receptors #umami #genome #vertebrates

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to science

Bizarre ancient sea creature brings evolution mystery to the surface - Enlarge / That blue tube is actually a very close relative of vertebrat... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1954196 #paleontology #vertebrates #evolution #tunicates #science #biology #fossils

Half-billion-year-old sea squirt could push back origins of vertebrates, including humans (www.science.org)

Now, in a paper published today in Nature Communications, Nanglu and his co-authors report that the exquisitely-preserved 500-million-year-old fossil is a dead ringer for some tunicates today, with two siphons to filter organic particles from the water and complex musculature controlling the siphons. “It looks like a tunicate...