Ritter, worked on tunicates, and his successor, Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, worked on corals. Dr. Myrtle E. Johnson, an invertebrate zoologist at Scripps from 1904 to 1921, co-authored an early field ...

Over 96% of all the animal species on Earth are invertebrate. They can be tiny like an insect or huge like the giant squid. Invertebrates are animals that don’t have a spine or backbone inside ...

A survey of the phyla of invertebrate animals. Discussions include their physiology, development, morphology, behavior, ecology and adaptations. Corequisite: 81.308 ...

Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 71,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 7,600+ species from ...

Butterfly Pavilion’s new exhibit highlights the cultural connections between humans and their invertebrate neighbors.

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

invertebrate, and fish in the zoo. The official count, a legal requirement of the zoo's licence, saw more than 500 animals across 145 species totted up. A colony of Humboldt penguins, a rare okapi ...

There are many misconceptions about invertebrate sentience, welfare requirements, the need for environmental enrichment, and overall care and husbandry for this amazing group of animals. This review ...