The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

In a recent News Hour segment on PBS television, doctors and researchers pointed out that female sexual topics were largely ignored in medical school where mostly male lecturers knew almost nothing ...

Paleobotanical wood anatomy examines the cellular and structural characteristics of fossil wood to trace the origin and diversification of woody tissues through deep time. By comparing secondary xylem ...

Polynemids are easily identifiable as a natural group based on their external morphology, particularly their distinct pectoral fin divided into a dorsal part, with 12–19 soft rays united by an ...

Darin Croft, professor of anatomy, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes a wide variety of research spanning ...

Machine generated contents note: 11.1. Muscular splittings, fusions, paedomorphism, reversions and anatomical complexity -- 11.2. Myological characters and phylogenetic reconstructions -- 11.3.

Thin sections of 37 stenolamate species with soft parts within the skeletons unexpectedly reveal 10 variations in polypide anatomy and related methods of tentacle protrusion. Six of the variations ...