Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...

Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex...

Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain...

The first phylum within Spiralia that we will investigate is Platyhelminthes. These are the so-called flatworms. What are their characteristics? What are the clades within this phylum? Let's set ourselves up for a thorough...

With the basics regarding phylum Platyhelminthes covered, it's time to start digging into the clades within. Free-living flatworms were originally classified within the class Turbellaria. But more recently the clades needed to be...

It explains the key characteristic features and common examples of animals belonging to Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Soon we are going to dive into a study of all the different kinds of animals, but first we need some kind of road map. What are all the major divisions of Kingdom Animalia? Below kingdom is phylum, so how many animal phyla are there, and...

It's time to start digging into Nephrozoa, which is going to take a really, really, really long time to cover. The first major clade within that we will tackle is Spiralia. This includes well-known phyla like Mollusca and Annelida, but...

Biological Classification Set: This clip looks at the three major phyla of worms: the Platyhelminthes, Nematoda and Annelida. As well as examining the phylum Mollusca.