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 ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Invertebrates make up more than 80 percent of all known species and provide humans with a myriad of valuable services—from crop pollination to ...

A recent study published in Nature confirmed that Bogong moths navigate using the starry sky of the Milky Way, a capability previously recorded only in humans and some migratory birds, making them the ...

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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 ...

When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he ...

Noise from human activities is harming ocean invertebrates and ecosystems, new research shows. Scientists reviewed hundreds of studies on the impact of noise on marine invertebrates (such as crabs, ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The Butterfly Pavilion’s Summer Nature Camp aims to teach compassion and empathy for creatures most people don’t like seeing in their homes, invertebrates or animals lacking ...

Caitlyn Forster receives funding from The Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Eliza Middleton receives funding from The ...

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