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 ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 86,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 9,000+ species from ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) The National Zoo wants the public to know that although it has ...

Australia's photographic natural database is about to get a big boost as citizen scientists are urged to join a national ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Yakushima Island, a world heritage site in Japan, is renowned for its rich biodiversity. The huge Japanese cedar (Yaku-sugi) forests, which are over a thousand years old, are a symbolic ...

(1) Invertebrates were sampled from mature, dry Calluna-heathland in southern England by pitfall trapping and vacuum sweep-netting. (2) Sampling sites were chosen on twenty-two heathlands which ...

WASHINGTON — The search is on to find new homes for more than 100 different species that must be dispersed now that the National Zoo has decided to close its 27-year-old Invertebrate Exhibit. “Once we ...

I investigated the impact of riparian vegetation type on stream invertebrate communities in six Danish forest streams during the period 1992-1993. Two of the streams ran through beech forest Fagus ...

Scientists have found that a common class of freshwater invertebrate animals called bdelloid rotifers are extraordinarily resistant to ionizing radiation, surviving and continuing to reproduce after ...

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, ...