Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

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For Mighty Vertebrate, they’ve taken the opposite approach by carefully composing every part before recording note one. This was a new process for Butterss, but they found familiarity in ...

Male and female pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao undertook an approximately 19-hour trans-Pacific journey from southwest China.

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