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 ...

Blob is a very simple invertebrate, just like worms or jellyfish. Over 96% of all the animal species on Earth are invertebrate. They can be tiny like an insect or huge like the giant squid.

Butterfly Pavilion, nonprofit zoo is celebrating 30 Years of global invertebrate research, conservation, and education protecting the 97% of all animal species on earth. Butterfly Pavilion is a global ...

On Monday we brought you the finest insect specimens from the California Academy of Sciences, with a friendly reminder that bugs rule this planet. Today, we bring even more bad news to ...

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 ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals. Lord Howe ...

The world's smallest known vertebrate is a frog the size of a housefly, a new study says. Scientists locate the teensy animals by listening for their calls and trying to zero in on the sources of the ...

WASHINGTON – The National Zoo is closing its Invertebrate Exhibit, citing rising costs and $5 million in needed upgrades. The Invertebrate Exhibit's operating cost was about $1 million. It opened ...

Invertebrates make up about 99 percent of all species. But they're no longer being featured at the National Zoo due to budget problems. The Invertebrate Exhibit was shut down Sunday, less than a week ...

For this week's Sea Camp, we're diving below the surface to explore the sunlight zone, the portion of ocean that's 0-200 meters deep. This is where phytoplankton eat sunlight, poop out sugar and ...