Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Cawa Tran, assistant professor of biology at USD, shares recommendations in and around the University of San Diego campus ...

Columnist and Life The surprising silver lining to the recent boom in invertebrate pets From spiders to scorpions, some 1000 different invertebrate species are traded globally as pets. This is bad ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Discovered in Papua New Guinea in 2009, this tiny frog holds the title of the world’s smallest known vertebrate. Measuring just 7.7 millimeters, it’s smaller than a fingernail and can fit on ...

The juvenile loggerhead sea turtle was covered in layers of a variety of algae, acorn barnacles, gooseneck barnacles, worms, crabs, skeleton shrimp, bryozoans, and other small invertebrates.

Milnesium tardigradum has just received a very unusual award - invertebrate of the year 2025! The contest was run by the Guardian newspaper, with readers putting forward more than 2,000 ...

The beautiful Banda Myzomela occurs across three remote island groups in Indonesia, called the Banda Islands, Tanimbars and Babar. Feeding on nectar and small invertebrates, males of this charismatic ...

Saint Lucia racer is a very tiny species, whose length is around 40-60 cm. Due to this tiny size, it is counted among the world's smallest species of snakes. Its small stature makes it more adept ...

Birds evolved during the Jurassic Period from small feathered dinosaurs. The oldest-known bird, Archaeopteryx, dates to about 150 million years ago.

A specimen belonging to a related Brachycephalus species was recorded as 0.45 millimeters smaller than the B. dacnis specimen and currently holds the record for world’s smallest vertebrate.

A “toadlet” in Brazil is the second-smallest vertebrate known to exist on the planet. By Sofia Quaglia At 6.95 tiny millimeters in length, this creature could fit on your fingertip. It is ...