Insects and Invertebrates
The tiny majority. Most animals on Earth have no backbone at all, and their stories are enormous.
The first insects and invertebrates have arrived; the full branch is growing.
Meet the stars
- ★ Monarch ButterflyA Map Written in WingsA butterfly lighter than a paper clip flies up to about 4,000 km to a mountain forest in Mexico that it has never seen.3 min story
- ★ Western Honey BeeShe Danced the Way HomeA honey bee tells thousands of sisters exactly where flowers grow by dancing an angle and a distance in the dark of the hive.4 min story
- ★ Giant Pacific OctopusThe Day the Rock BlinkedWith three hearts, blue blood, and one small beak as its only hard part, a giant Pacific octopus can pour itself through any gap wider than that beak.4 min story