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 ...

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, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck set out to categorize ...

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 ...

Peter Contos receives funding from the Ecological Society of Australia. Heloise Gibb receives funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation and the Australian Research Council Many of Australia’s natural ...

FRANKLIN the cuttlefish considered the juicy prawn meat morsel in front of her. As mouth-watering as it looked, she resisted temptation and waited for her favourite meal to become available – live ...

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 supplies ...

Ciasico, M.N.A. and Ciasico, F.E.A. (2025) Macrobenthic Invertebrates in the Seagrass Bed of Matarinao Bay, Southeast Samar, Central Philippines. Open Journal of Ecology, 15, 883-892. doi: 10.4236/oje ...

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 ...

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 ...