Invertebrates are creatures without a backbone — like insects, worms, snails, arachnids, freshwater crayfish and mussels — and make up 95 per cent of the animal world. Scientists say more than 9,000 ...

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The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

Invertebrates—creatures without spines—make up 98% of known animal species, but their backboned cousins get all the attention. Photographer Susan Middleton explores the strange world of underwater ...

Ciasico, M.N.A. and Ciasico, F.E.A. (2025) Macrobenthic Invertebrates in the Seagrass Bed of Matarinao Bay, Southeast Samar, ...

Invertebrates are dominant species in primary tropical rainforests, where their abundance and diversity contributes to the functioning and resilience of these globally important ecosystems. However, ...

Figure 1: Evolution of the virulence gene pool. Figure 3: Pathogenicity islands encode both insect and mammalian virulence factors. A common requirement of all bacterial pathogens is the need to avoid ...

Up until the mid-1980s, human babies didn't feel pain. Of course that's not actually true, but due to research conducted in the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was an attitude that still lingered ...

Octopuses can solve complex puzzles and show a preference for different individuals, but whether they, and other animals and invertebrates, have emotions is being hotly debated and could shake up ...

What are ammonites, and how did they come to rule the prehistoric seas? What are ammonites, and how did they come to rule the prehistoric seas? Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or bony ...

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