After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

This species has rapidly spread through western Europe, with a huge impact on other flying insect populations We live in dark times. Storm clouds gather over our nations, politics and planet. Let rip ...

Goetze: Do they all die or are they simply hiding somewhere until the return of more favorable weather and resources?

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 86,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 9,000+ species from ...

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 ...

Invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45 percent on average over a 35 year period in which the human population doubled, reports a study on the impact of humans on declining animal numbers. This ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specimens contained in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection date back to 1902, when Dr. William E. Ritter of the University of California Berkeley and summer ...