New Zealand’s marine biodiversity checklist has been updated, representing an increase of 3,630 known living species since the turn of the century.

Chordata, the phylum to which bats belong, encompasses a diverse range of animals with a notochord – a flexible rod-like structure providing support and serves as a precursor to the spine. Bats, as ...

Taxonomically speaking, fish are actually more closely related to humans than they are to either jellyfish or starfish—fish and humans both belong to the phylum Chordata, along with all other ...

Using fossil evidence and genetic dating, geneticists and paleontologists have backed strikingly different candidates for the world's first animal.

The presumed blood vessel was a dorsal nerve cord, a feature associated with the animal group known as chordates, in the phylum Chordata.

(For reference, the class of mammals is a subgroup of the phylum Chordata.) Such discoveries are more than minor revisions to the tree of life.

The Middle Cambrian chordate known as Pikaia gracilens was once thought to be humanity’s earliest known ancestor, and the earliest known member of the phylum Chordata. Now, a new study flips ...

Pygmy Marmoset (Finger Monkey) Scientific Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Callitrichidae Genus Cebuella Scientific Name Callithrix pygmaea Read our ...

North American Black Bear Scientific Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Ursidae Genus Ursus Scientific Name Ursus americanus Read our Complete Guide ...

Object Details Keywords Swim test,Species: leo,Genus: Panthera,Family: Felidae,Order: Carnivora,Class: Mammalia,Phylum: Chordata,Kingdom: Animalia,Shera's Cubs,Cat ...

The electric rays are a group of flattened cartilaginous fish with enlarged pectoral fins belonging to Phylum Chordata. They are among the sea animals that start with E and are known for their ability ...