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It may surprise you to learn that more than 90% of all known animal species are invertebrates. This loose grouping includes everything from lobsters and crabs to insects to snails, worms, octopuses, and a whole lot more. Roots and Wings has been working alongside Great North Museum and Newcastle University to produce some animations for the forthcoming GNM exhibition, Spineless, which opens to the public on August 1^st 2015. It’s the museum’s first major natural history exhibition since re-opening in 2009 and one that promises to take you deep into the strange and fascinating world of invertebrates.

The exhibition will include hundreds of carefully chosen specimens from the museum’s extensive natural history collection, as well as live specimens including the world’s heaviest stick insect and its largest spider! Hopefully the short teaser video above will whet your appetite to find out more about how the other 90% live. Make sure you get yourself along to the museum to check it out when it opens… Unless that is you don’t have the backbone!