Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam ...

Researchers have long debated about the relationship between avian and mammalian intelligences. One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, including mammals and ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone inside their body. The major groups include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

California Lutheran University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for ensuring the humane and ethical treatment of vertebrate animals used in research and teaching ...

There are lots of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Slide 1 of 5, , Mammals: Lions, humans and dolphins Mammals breathe through their lungs, are warm-blooded, give birth to live babies and have ...

But we can’t claim a monopoly on thought. Among a variety of nonhuman species known to display intelligent behavior, birds have been shown time and again to have advanced cognitive abilities.

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) oversees all research and teaching use of live vertebrate animals campus wide. The committee also helps to oversee the implementation of the ...