Goetze: Do they all die or are they simply hiding somewhere until the return of more favorable weather and resources?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Biologists studying the habits of veined octopuses in the waters of ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the deepest underground dwelling centipede. The animal was found by members of the Croatian Biospeleological Society in three caves in Velebit Mts, ...