Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

How early tetrapods got their neck

As fish evolved into four-limbed creatures, their skull separated from their shoulders to form a neck. Now we learn that this early neck was surprisingly rigid.

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Nature

Related news:

Johns Hopkins investigators identify a metabolic weak point in exhausted immune cells in head and neck cancer

Weekly cisplatin shows similar burden of acute treatment side effects as every 3-week schedule for patients with p16-negative head and neck cancer on NRG oncology trial

Response to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy may allow for surgical de-escalation in head and neck cancers

« Alveolar stem cells go beyond making gas-exchange cells to repair damaged airways

Structural basis of ligand recognition and gating in mosquito IRs »