Invertebrates make up more than 70 percent of the approximately 1.9 million described species on Earth. These creatures have long served as model organisms in many areas of biology. Sea urchins, for ...

Our role in the DDT research is to archive and identify representative benthic invertebrates from Dumpsites 1 and 2. These preserved specimens and their DNA sequences will serve as important reference ...

Insects, worms and other small animals that carry out vital functions for life on earth have declined by 45 per cent on average over 35 years, threatening human health, water quality and food ...

The project was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR) Program, Award #1458145: “CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Incorporation of MBARI and Univ.

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species 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 ...

Microplastics were recently found in a small invertebrate animal, officially called the "Cryptopygus antarcticus," that lives in the soil of the Antarctic.

Jonathan Birch is Professor of Philosophy at the LSE and Principal Investigator (PI) on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project. In 2021, he led a "Review of the Evidence of Sentience in ...

Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or bony skeleton. They range in size from microscopic mites and almost invisible flies to giant squid with soccer-ball-size eyes. This is by far the ...

Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside in the eastern parts of the country in its freshwater drainages, including Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of ...