Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

From spiders to scorpions, some 1000 different invertebrate species are traded globally as pets. This is bad for biodiversity ...

Prehistoric vertebrate fish (top row), prehistoric arthropods (middle row) and modern-day arthropods (bottom row) had structures connected to nerves that allow the animals to sense their surroundings.

Vertebrates & Invertebrates: A Comprehensive Biology Guide. ... The film discusses the characteristics and classifications of chordates, a group of animals that includes vertebrates and some ...

She got her start in invertebrate biology, and invertebrate butts or invertebutts have become one of her passions. She’s even given public talks about them. MAUREEN BERG: Now I’m known as the ...

Invertebrates are creatures without a backbone — like insects, worms, snails, arachnids, freshwater crayfish and mussels — and make up 95 per cent of the animal world. Scientists say more than ...

We called the installation “In Search of Spider Consciousness” an allusion to my supervisor, Jonathan Birch’s paper “The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness”, which accesses several approaches to ...

“A big question and the work I do is vertebrates all evolved from invertebrates, and you have this invertebrate zoo here, so it seems like it could be a cool idea to have some kind of link to ...

The new declaration, signed by biologists and philosophers, formally embraces that view. It reads, in part: “The empirical evidence indicates at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience ...