Invertebrates

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Kate Zimmerman Anything you want to know on Cnidaria (Coral, Jellyfish, etc) [] Again, on Cnidaria, but more in detail... [] Intro to Echinodermata (worms), from fossil records, to Life History and Ecology, to Systematics, Morphology. [] Hope these links help!

Danielle Shewmake This is a video on the Portuguese Man-Of-War and its everyday life, reflexes and its attacking abilities. [] A video of the fight between an octupus vs. a shark and the outcome. [] This is a video of the "Ocean Fairies", or the Zooplankton in the sea. []

Shannon Koundourakis This website gives a good definition of inveterbrates and gives many examples. [] This website have good information about features of invertebrates. [] This website has information about the phylums of the invertebrates []

Bryan Gale Jellyfish are edible :O i dunno if thats a good thing but it's intresting. []

Sami MacCurdy This is an interesting website that has all your basic information about invertebrates [] This site has fun invertebrate games and a list of every invertebrate there is. [] This site has print outs and offer little quizzes to test your invertebrate knowledge []

Garrick Frunz This is a website with info on invertebrates in a brief yet useful manner. http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/

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Finally this site is run by a doctor with alot of information that gets very specific []

Steven Hackenburg This website gives great knowledge concerning invertebrates like how invertebrates make up 95% of life on earth. Along with that it has great facts about exotic invertebrates and pictures to take your breath away. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Porifera.html

Corrine Cornell This is a link to an article that talks about the classification of invertebrates and describes the three most common phylums in this group. http://fishinsects.suite101.com/article.cfm/invertebrate_classification

Leslie Hackworth A cute and factual webcite about platyhelminthes. Featuring Fredrick the Flatworm! []

Katie Perron This is a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about invertebrates... its pretty sweet. You should definitely watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs5XRhDXIc

Hannah Gregory :) This is a National Geographic site that focuses mainly on undersea invertebrates. The website gives a definition of an invertebrate along with several examples of invertebrates. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates.html This site talks about forest/land invertebrates and their contribution to the ecosystem. It gives several examples of many different invertebrates that includes a picture and descriptive definition of each. http://www.forest.nsw.gov.au/publication/forest_facts/invertebrates/default.asp This site gives examples of different kinds of invertebrates using pictures and a short description of what the invertebrate is: how it functions and other short facts about the invertebrates. http://www.kidport.com/RefLIb/science/Animals/AnimalIndexInv.htm

Haha, and I thought these were ridiculous... media type="custom" key="3095536"media type="custom" key="3095540" Jillian Goodman This is a government site about one of my favorite invertebrates, the leech: http://www.austmus.gov.au/factSheets/leeches.htm It has information on how it breeds, moves and bites.

Taylor Gannon This is a site I found that presents a fairly shocking statistic about invertebrates- that more than 98% of all species in the kingdom //Animalia// are invertebrates! It also shares the general types and classifications of invertebrates. http://www.kidport.com/RefLIb/science/Animals/AnimalIndexInv.htm

Luc Lagesse This link has information on sea stars. It tells you how they reproduce and tells you how they function. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/Seastarprintout.shtml This website includes some interesting facts about the cnidaria phylum and contains some cool pictures: [] This site talks about jellyfish and their dangers. It also has some cool pictures of jellyfish. []

Mara Lopez This links to some really cool facts about starfish (sea stars). You can also find out information about other invertebrates here. They have pictures, articles, and videos. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/starfish.html

Shannon Koundourakis This website gives examples and good information about the characteristics of invertebrates. http://www.biology4kids.com/files/invert_main.html

Kate Zimmerman This website explains what a invertebrate is, and facts about specific invertebrates. For example, there is info here about starfish, squids, sea urchins, and many more. It also has pictures! :) http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates.html  Sami MacCurdy This website states exactly what an invertebrate is, and it also has pictures of different types of invertebrates. It also explains that, instead of a backbone, or spine, invertebrates have a fluid-filled hydrostatic skeleton. http://www.kidport.com/RefLIb/science/Animals/AnimalIndexInv.htm

Taylor Foss This link has information about sponges, including the classification of sponges and many pictures. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Porifera.html

Ian Flanders This is a site that shows a lot of species all of which are invertebrates, it also gives information about those species. http://www.hear.org/invertebrates/  Cherry McKoy The following website explores and explains many features of the invertebrates called butterflies, and also distinguishes between butterflies and moths. In the different tabs, it talks about what butterflies look like, what and how they eat as a caterpillar and as an adult, and what defense mechanisms they have. It is all very intriguing and cool! http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/allabout/  Some pictures of moths and butterflies:



Mary Meyers This website gives a percentage of how many members of the kingdom //Animalia// are invertebrates, and their maximum known size of certain species. http://www.nrm.se/en/menu/researchandcollections/departments/invertebratezoology/research/factsoninvertebrates/invertebratesinnumbers.728_en.html

Logan Sloan These links provide information on the length, size, biology, and other interesting facts on my favorite (and the largest.) invertebrate on earth(That we know of.): the Giant Squid. i also embed a video that shows a squid live (if the video works.) [|http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/giant-squid.html]

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Annie Sexton This link provides information about Jellyfish. It also gives their scientific name and common name with short but sweet facts about the Jellyfish. The website also has a picture of the Jellyfish. http://www.cyhaus.com/marine/cnidaria.htm

Craig Ratterman This is a link to a National Geographic page about Blue Crabs. It's pretty cool! It has some nice pictures, along with links to pages with information about other invertebrates. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/blue-crab.html

Nicole Smith This is the link to a fascinating website about Starfish. They don't just give you facts, but they show pictures of starfish from across the world. You will hardly believe that some of these pictures are of Starfish! [|oceanlight.com]

Danielle Shewmake This is a link that goes to a website about sponges- specifically, how they grow and reproduce. As is stated on the page, "They are nothing like Spongebob!" It has an illustration on the structure of sponges as well as many pictures of real-life sponges. http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/wonders/sponges.html

Connor Mack Here is a link to an article regarding the highlights of the evolution of vertebrates. http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/Paleontology/HigEvoVer.html

Alison Lieberman This link leads to a website that tells you just what an invertebrate is, and that gives examples of some invertebrates. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates.html

Hannah Gregory These four websites specify in the symmetry, reproduction, feeding types, and the importance of both the Porifera and Cnidaria classes. __Sponges:__ [] [|[[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html]]] __media type="custom" key="3414928" Cnidaria:__ [] []