Invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45 percent on average over a 35 year period in which the human population doubled, reports a study on the impact of humans on declining animal numbers. This ...

A hundred years since microbiologists first discovered the invertebrate immune system, they are just beginning to understand its complexity. Scientists recently discovered that invertebrates have ...

WESH 2's Adrian Whitsett, along with the Orlando Science Center, is bringing you the latest edition of The Science of It.Today, we are learning about invertebrates.Adrian shows us what a bi-valve is, ...

Hyoliths are evolutionary misfits no more. This class of ancient marine invertebrates has now been firmly pegged as lophophorates, a group whose living members include horseshoe worms and lamp shells, ...

There are many small, feasible ways we can take invertebrate welfare into consideration. The science of invertebrate welfare can be intimately connected with the science of invertebrate sentience. The ...

A flashy jewel bug butt. Ian Jacobs via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Over 90 percent of all animal species are invertebrates, including jellyfish, clams, worms, squids, and insects. As an ode to the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Oct. 7 (UPI) --Researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry think research animals should die with dignity -- even invertebrates. Recently, scientists at ESF set ...

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 ...