Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life ...

Animal welfare scientists have spent the last decades on research targetted on improving the lives of the animals around us. It would be a mistake not to draw on this knowledge. One worry about ...

Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones—spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of ...

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 ...

Invertebrate Animals: The animal kingdom is full of diverse species, each uniquely adapted to survive in its environment. Among them is a vast group known as invertebrates, animals that do not have a ...

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 ...

Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. This is the conclusion of a study co-led by NIOZ marine biologist Katharina Alter, ...

Viruses are a unique form of life that have challenged scientists since the dawn of biomedical research. They have even defied routine classifications, and reside in a gray area between a living and ...

Considering the recent cold temperatures and winter weather throughout our region, I thought a timely topic might be considering how invertebrate animals rebound after such harsh periods. Regarding ...

Researchers have elucidated the evolutionary origins of placodes and neural crests, which are defining features of vertebrates, through lineage tracing and genetic analysis in Ciona intestinalis, a ...

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 ...