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  1. Vertebrate - Evolution, Paleontology, Anatomy | Britannica

    Oct 28, 2025 · The knowledge of vertebrates as revealed by fossils has grown rapidly during the past few decades, but there is much still to be discovered. The ancestral vertebrate …

  2. 10 Steps of Animal Evolution, From Fish to Primates - ThoughtCo

    Jan 30, 2020 · The following is a roughly chronological survey of the major vertebrate animal groups, ranging from fish to amphibians to mammals, with some notable extinct reptile …

  3. Evolution of the Vertebrates - Wikipedia

    Evolution of the Vertebrates, subtitled "A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time", is a basic paleontology textbook by Edwin H. Colbert, published by John Wiley & Sons.

  4. Origin of Vertebrates - Evolutionary Biology - Oxford Bibliographies

    Jul 24, 2024 · A review of the vertebrate origin based on new molecular and microanatomical data obtained from the study of soft-bodied fossils found from Lower Cambrian sites in southern …

  5. Vertebrate Evolution: A Journey Through Time - Biology Insights

    Jul 29, 2025 · Vertebrates are a highly diverse group of animals, characterized by the presence of a backbone. These creatures inhabit nearly every ecosystem on Earth, from the deepest …

  6. The hagfish genome and the evolution of vertebrates - Nature

    Jan 23, 2024 · Reconstruction of the early genomic history of vertebrates provides a framework for further investigations of the evolution of cyclostomes and jawed vertebrates.

  7. Permo-Triassic mass extinction - the biggest known All together, in two extinction pulses 90-95% of all marine species (80-85% of all marine and terrestrial species) and 75% of all vertebrate …

  8. Early Vertebrate Fossils | American Museum of Natural History

    The Hall of Vertebrate Origins traces the evolution of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, back more than 500 million years.

  9. Vertebrate Evolution | Ask An Anthropologist

    What do fossils tell us about how vertebrates moved from water to land? The earliest tetrapods (vertebrates with four limbs, like a frog, a cat, or you) evolved about 375 million years ago. …

  10. Vertebrate phylogeny with time - Understanding Evolution

    This phylogeny represents vertebrate evolution. The lengths of the branches have been adjusted to show when lineages split and went extinct. Image use policy: For non-commercial, …