across the Pacific Ocean from North America—the longest known transoceanic journey by a terrestrial vertebrate. Iguanas are known for their ability to island-hop. In the Caribbean, they’ve been ...

A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of ...

When a terrestrial vertebrate stands, its body hangs from the vertebral column which supports the weight of the trunk like the arch of a suspension bridge and transmits it to the ground by two sets of ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...

Amphibians are the first vertebrates to have a neck ... With the exploitation of terrestrial habitats, the weight of the body is borne by the limbs. This led to improved anchorage of the hind limbs.

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.

And from those first lumbering steps, it appears, came the whole parade of terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals, including those that later returned to the oceans.

Their epic journey to what is now Fiji marks the longest known transoceanic expansion of any terrestrial vertebrate species, according to the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the ...

Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has always prioritized eco-environmental conservation and kept reminding itself ...