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1. There are many different types of animals in the world. Many animals are quite similar to each other. Others are quite different. Animals can be classified based on their similarities.

Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or spinal column. Examples of invertebrates in the animal kingdom are mollusks, arthropods, crustaceans, arachnids, and insects. Some specific animals that may sound familiar are spiders, crabs, octopus', and insects.

Vertebrates are animals with a backbone or spinal column and all are in the phyla Chordata and the subphyla Vertebrata. Some examples of vertebrates are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. To be more specific, frogs, crocodiles, kangaroos, and gorillas are vertebrates.

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3. Mollusks: I believe we like mollusks because they give us clams, but clams and other mollusks try to get out of their way as they plow through the sand. They glide on a voluminous mucus covered body part called a foot. If these snails encounter a clam, they envelope it in their fleshy foot, and use a mouth part called a radula to drill a hole and eat their prey. You may have picked up clam shells neatly drilled as if someone were to bring an electric drill to the beach to make these holes.

4. Arthropods: Some examples of anthropods are scorpions, crayfish, butterfly, catterpillars, and shrimp.

5. Echinoderms: The echinoderms are a group of animals consisting of over 6500 known species that have the following features unique to themselves: and internal skeleton composed of crystalline limestone bones; fluid-filled, hydraulically powered organs; tendons controlled by nerves, which can rapidly transform from rocky rigidity to puddinglike pliancy; and a radial body plan that is five-sided.

6. Aves: the classification follows the traditional 27-order model, a long-standing morphological model based on careful observations of anatomical similarities between birds.

7. Star Fish: Starfish digestion is carried out in two seperate stomachs, the cardiac stomach and the pyloric stomach. The cardiac stomach, which is a sacklike stomach located at the center of the body may be everted - pushed out of the organism's body and used to engulf and digest food. Some species take advantage of the great endurance of their water vascular systems to open the shells of molluscs and inject their stomachs into the shells