invertebrate
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Scientists have long wondered how these invertebrate eyes continue growing during adulthood.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025
The parasitic fungus species belongs to a group that infects their invertebrate hosts and takes control before killing them as part of their spore-spreading mechanisms.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
So the question of cyborg ethics is currently a question of the ethics of creating cyborgs from invertebrate animals.
From Salon • May 13, 2025
This summer, Austin Hendy, an assistant curator at the Natural History Museum who specializes in invertebrate paleontology, spent hours sifting and sorting through thousands of fossilized shells found in the shell bed.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
The invertebrate eye was invented into an optical instrument at the MBL, opening the way to modern visual physiology.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
