Most living animal species belong to the clade Bilateria, a highly proliferative clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric and significantly cephalised body plan, and the vast …

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Oct 12, 2025 · Animal, any of a group of multicellular eukaryotic organisms thought to have evolved independently from the unicellular eukaryotes. Animals differ from other multicellular …

The meaning of ANIMAL is any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans) that typically differ …

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