Living members of Mollusca represent the broadest morphological disparity of any animal phylum: mollusc body plans encompass squid, worms, living rocks and candy-coloured tree snails, as well as ...

Apr. 24, 2025 — Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively ...

These snails are considered an invasive species, feeding on at least 500 diverse types of plants. Unfortunately, these snails are carriers of a parasite that causes meningitis, posing a threat to both ...

Arthropods, a group that includes insects, crustaceans, spiders, and centipedes, represent the most diverse animal phylum on Earth. Each group of arthropods is defined by a unique arrangement of ...

These species are grouped into 30 families based on their body shapes, sizes, diets, and many other defining characteristics. Although they are a diverse group of animals, sharks tend to have one of ...

Beyond arthropods and mollusks, IgSF also functions in other animal phyla, such as protozoa, plankton ... evolutionary trajectory of immunity and their influence on subsequent higher organisms. The ...

Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with ...

An invertebrate is any animal without an internal backbone including insects, spiders, mollusks, crustaceans, and worms ... Soft scales have a more rounded and convex… Both snails and slugs are ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

She said: "This is exciting to us because it confirms that the genes and gene families that we identified using our comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat ...