Invertebrates

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Animals with Colored Blood (blue, green, yellow, purple etc.)

What is Blood? Blood is a bodily fluid that circulates through the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates, delivering essential chemicals such as nutrition and oxygen to the cells while also transporting metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood is made up of blood cells floating in a liquid called plasma. It …

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Are Mosquitoes Carnivores, Herbivores or Omnivores? Or something else? (Explained)

Mosquitoes (sometimes-spelled mosquitos) belong to the family Culicidae, which contains almost 3,600 different species of tiny flies (from the Latin culex meaning “gnat”). Mosquitoes have a slim body that is segmented, with one pair of wings, one pair of halteres, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and protracted mouthparts. They feed on the blood of …

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