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Do You Know How These Animal Partnerships Work?

Animals are one of the many wonders of this world. They are often seen as predators and prey, but sometimes, there are strange partnerships throughout the animal kingdom. Do you know how these…

What You Can Do to Help Shelter Animals

April 30th is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. This day was established to bring about awareness to the thousands of abandoned pets who need “forever homes.” In honor of this day, we at Infoplease…

Archaeopteryx

(Encyclopedia) ArchaeopteryxArchaeopteryxärˌkēŏpˈtərĭks [key] [Gr.,=primitive wing], a 150 million-year-old fossil animal first discovered in 1860 in the late Jurassic limestone of Solnhofen, Bavaria…

invertebrate

(Encyclopedia) invertebrateinvertebrateĭnˌvûrˈtəbrət, –brātˌ [key], any animal lacking a backbone. The invertebrates include the tunicates and lancelets of phylum Chordata, as well as all animal…

venom

(Encyclopedia) venom or zootoxin, any of a variety of poisonous substances produced by animals. In poisonous snakes, venom is secreted in two poison glands, one on each side of the upper jaw, and…

Knight, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Knight, Charles, 1874–1953, American artist, b. New York City. Knight painted and sculpted animal subjects. He is best known for his murals at the American Museum of Natural History,…

tunicate

(Encyclopedia) tunicatetunicatet&oomacr;ˈnəkĭt [key], marine animal of the phylum Chordata, which also includes the vertebrates. The adult form of most tunicates (also called urochordates) shows…