Curated category
Animal anatomy
- SkinOn the 11th of January 2024, biologists announced a groundbreaking find. They had uncovered fossilized skin dating back 289 million years.
- CuticleThe thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails carries the medical name eponychium. Medical professionals use this term to describe the…
- BrainThe first vertebrates appeared over 500 million years ago during the Cambrian period, and may have resembled modern jawless fish like hagfish and lampreys.
- SkeletonThe word skeleton derives from the Greek term skeletos, meaning dried up or mummified. This etymology hints at the ancient nature of these structural frames…