A program at the Smithsonian’s Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama, allows marine invertebrate experts to pass down their very specific knowledge to aspiring taxonomists. Vanessa Crooks ...

On Monday we brought you the finest insect specimens from the California Academy of Sciences, with a friendly reminder that bugs rule this planet. Today, we bring even more bad news to ...

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After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods, and other invertebrates in the area revealed striking declines of most invertebrates in the local ...

The question of the origin of the vertebrates (including humans) from invertebrates is the most celebrated paternity suit in biology. Since they were first accused over a century ago, acorn worms ...

On Earth Day, April 22, the Frontiers Planet Prize was announced, and Professor Evan Economo, head of OIST's Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, was chosen as the National Champion for Japan for his ...

The decision comes after a new study reviewed hundreds of scientific papers on pain reception among the invertebrate groups. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Gerald Summers, a biology professor at the University of Missouri, explains that invertebrates are animals without a backbone. Even though invertebrates lack a backbone, they can have a type of ...

The fundamental structures underlying learning and memory in the brains of invertebrates as different as a fruit fly and an earthworm are remarkably similar, according to neuroscientists. It turns out ...

Tunicates are an extremely diverse group of marine invertebrates that have an outer cover or tunic to protect them from predators, and many of the species live attached to a hard surface on the ocean ...