One in five of the world’s invertebrate species are threatened with extinction, according to the latest report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). From the checkerspot butterfly to the giant ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 95,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 9,000+ species from ...

The Antarctic strawberry feather star is one of four new related species believed to have been discovered by a team of marine scientists. Reading time 2 minutes Another day, another terrifying sea ...

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 ...

Highly diverse and charismatic, these creatures deserve recognition as a sixth great extinction dawns We are prone to obsessing over ourselves and over animals like us. But most of the life on Earth ...

Populations of these beetles with a light bright enough to help us see have fallen rapidly in modern times The stars rise, the moon bends her arc, Each glow-worm winks her spark, Let us get home ...

Since 2009, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative has coordinated an annual horizon scan, a well-established method for predicting which threats, changes, and technologies will have the biggest impact ...

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 ...

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 ...