The first new skull discovered in nearly a century from a rare species of the iconic, tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was announced today. The exquisite preservation of the skull, especially the ...

The vertebrate body plan emerged in concert with extensive changes to anterior chordate morphology, including assembly of a craniofacial skeleton, expansion of the anterior neuroepithelium into a ...

Neural crest cells are a migratory population of cells that originate from the border between the neural plate and the non-neural ectoderm. Induction at the neural plate border is difficult to define; ...