animalia

Plants are also Eukaryotes but Fungi and Animalia have a more recent common ancestor than either has with Plantae.

Think of the impact on everything that eats insects; they're the base of the Animalia food web.

Some people simply struggle with pattern blindness towards intelligence, a mind that isn't just another variety of animalia is inconceivable.

Well, if you insist on that level of pedantry, malarial parasites are protozoa, which is usually considered to be part of animalia.

First, keep in mind that Fungi is one of the Kingdoms; it separated from Animalia after they collectively said goodbye to Planta.

The more I look at Animalia species the more I tend to judge this is all alien compared to...

That insects and mammals are both Animalia can be nonintuitive for preschoolers.

> The xenomorph’s multicellular structure serves as a cornerstone for its classification within Animalia (Ros-Rocher et al., 2021).

All of those species belong to the animalia kingdom.

You have to draw a line, but there's no valid reason to say that the line must be drawn at the Animalia border rather than at the Tetrapod (which means fish are OK to eat).

Have a look at the wierd and wonderful pre-cambrian life forms that somehow combined to create the kind of animalia that we know today.

Mammalia is further a subset of animalia.

Since starfishes don't include tetrapods, nor vice versa (nor do they share biological features to be in a polyphyletic grouping like "crabs"), the relevant common term is "Animalia" -- "animal".

To which I say "hey buddy, just because we are (apparently) the most dominant species on the planet (which I also am not too certain I agree with), doesn't mean we are the end all be all, or worse, somehow different than all the animalia we happen to try to place ourselves "above" or something.

We can put a safety net on the slippery slope by drawing the line at Animalia.

If Xenomorph has evolved on a different planet, it will surely not have the same common ancestor as Animalia, let alone Arthropoda.

Animalia is an Earth kingdom, and the Xenomorphs clearly aren't an Earth life-form.