Science: No Backbones. 3 minute read. TIME. December 26, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... This is one of the points made in Animals Without Backbones, a lively, ...

As long as we’re rethinking how our laws privilege animals with backbones, through, Dr. Huffard said it may not make sense to elevate cephalopods above the other spineless species.

The vast majority are the invertebrates, the animals without backbones. Not all are so small—some squids and jellyfish are several meters long or across. Most, though, are small and unassuming.

Animals without Backbones An Introduction to the Invertebrates. By Ralph Buchsbaum. Pp. x+371+128 plates. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1938.) 25s. net.

Animals without a backbone are called invertebrates. Vertebrates and invertebrates can be sorted into smaller groups. Vertebrates, for example, are divided into mammals, birds, ...

Invertebrates: Animals without a backbone or bony skeleton; Fish: Vertebrates that live in water and breathe using gills; Fish are defined as vertebrates (meaning they have a backbone) ...

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones—spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in ...

SINGAPORE — Threatened invertebrates – or animals without backbones – such as the Common Rose butterfly and horseshoe crabs in Singapore will be offered more protection under proposed ...

An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human thumb was one of the earliest animals to evolve a precursor of a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by ...