invertebrates

You can have sharks and invertebrates in the ocean because the mineralized sea water maintains their blood balance.

Maybe your university was different, but at the University of California, no IRB approval is necessary for invertebrates.

Well, first of all octopi are invertebrates, so their nervous systems are quite dramatically different from ours.

If I remember right, an octopus' axons are unmyelinated (I don't know much about invertebrates; I know some invertebrates have myelination, but I don't think octopi do).

They're amazing animals, and really blow away the whole concept of invertebrates not having great intellects.

Not the things that have been on earth longer than any invertebrates and will most likely out survive our species.

Worth reading for me just for the brief remark that vaccines cannot be developed for invertebrates -- that was interesting.

Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent for invertebrates, and are among the top predators in their niches.

We can make artificial systems that outperform tiny invertebrates, but we still have a way to go.

We already have some pain-free meat in the form of invertebrates: shrimp, crab, mussels, etc.

So you don't eat invertebrates except for the ones you eat?

Just corals and other invertebrates like shrimp, snails, urchins, etc.

They will also eat "crunchies" (invertebrates, small vertebrates) when they come across them.

Life on this other side, tough shit we're going to screw with you nine ways to sunday because it's fu--I mean because science!" [1] I'm not discounting the complexity of an ant's nervous system here, just pointing it out in relative terms to larger insects and invertebrates.