Octopuses are a famous example for invertebrates. Source: Maël BALLAND/Pexels In a recent article, published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Heather Browning and ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display incredible diversity. From microscopic mites to giant squid, their ...

In our biology class, were learned the definition of invertebrates: animals lacking a backbone, such as crabs and insects and jelly fish and worms. We humans have related the spineless ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over recent decades, animal advocacy efforts have been mainly geared towards domesticated animals – including farmed, laboratory and companion ...

It’s been a busy few weeks in the news in so very many ways, including for science stories about creepy-crawlies and other unsightly animals that make most people—unfairly—recoil in horror. First, ...

Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Researchers have identified microscopic ancient creatures—dubbed "mold pigs"—in 30-million-year-old amber which represent not only a new species, but an entirely new family of invertebrates—animals ...

We summarize the genetic literature on polygamy rates and sire numbers per clutch in invertebrate animals that brood their offspring and then compare findings with analogous data previously compiled ...