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 ...

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 ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

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 ...

Viruses are a unique form of life that have challenged scientists since the dawn of biomedical research. They have even defied routine classifications, and reside in a gray area between a living and ...

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 ...

It’s been a busy few weeks in the news in so very many ways, including for science stories about creepy-crawlies and other unsightly animals that make most people—unfairly—recoil in horror. First, ...

More than 110 species of fish and invertebrates previously unknown to science were lurking between 200 metres and 3 ...

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 – ...

Animal welfare scientists have spent the last decades on research targetted on improving the lives of the animals around us. It would be a mistake not to draw on this knowledge. One worry about ...