To be considered "spineless" is an insult. Worms and insects are spineless. For many biologists, however, these are the very best of the animal world. Yet the invertebrates get no respect. They're ...

Living on an island in the middle of the widest ocean on Earth gives one an appreciation for how small we humans truly are. That thought becomes even more overwhelming when you begin to consider the ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The vital tasks carried out by tiny 'engineers' like earthworms that recycle waste and bees that pollinate crops are under threat because one fifth of the world's spineless creatures ...

Roberta at Wild About Ants (honorary marine invertebrates btw) has the latest edition of the Circus up!! Its a beautifully laid out edition – The Museum of Invertebrate Art. Be sure to read it through ...

The next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held at the Invertebrate Diaries. Send in your submissions from this month to edwbaker at googlemail dot com by Midnight GMT Saturday, February ...

In our biology class, were learned the definition of invertebrates: animals lacking a backbone, such as crabs and insects and jelly fish and worms. We humans have related the spineless nature of these ...