With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside. With a ...

From alligators to ostriches, the Anthropology Department's Vertebrate Osteology Collection is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. "We have over 12,000 vertebrate specimens in our collections.

The animal kingdom abounds with creatures that grow hard shells, carapaces and skeletons. But complex life was pretty squishy when it first evolved, so when and how did this change? UC Santa Barbara ...