In a recent article, published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Heather Browning and myself *, we argue that recent research on animal consciousness and welfare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 nature of these ...

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 ...

While almost everyone is delighted to encounter a butterfly, very few seek to encounter a scorpion (particularly when padding around barefoot). But they’re both invertebrates – animals without bones – ...

In a recent article, published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Heather Browning and myself *, we argue that recent research on animal consciousness and welfare ...