Animals

Aw ainimals are motile, meanin thay can muiv spontaneously an independently, at some pynt in thair lifes. Thair body plan hidnerly becomes fixed as thay develop, tho some unnergang a process o metamorphosis later on in thair lifes. Aw ainimals is heterotrophs: thay maun ingest ither organisms or thair products for sustenance.

Ainimals Temporal range: Cryogenian – present, 665–0Ma Had'n Archean Proterozoic Pha.
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Unikonta
(unranked):	Obazoa
(unranked):	Opisthokonta
(unranked):	Holozoa
(unranked):	Filozoa
Kinrick:	Animalia Linnaeus, 1758
Phyla
Subkingdom Parazoa Porifera Placozoa Subkingdom Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) Cnidaria Ctenophora Trilobozoa † Bilateria (unranked) Proarticulata † Xenacoelomorpha Mesozoa (unranked) Monoblastozoa Nephrozoa (unranked) Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Echinodermata Hemichordata Vetulicolia † Protostomia (unranked) Chaetognatha (incertae sedis) Orthonectida Superphylum Ecdysozoa Arthropoda Kinorhyncha Loricifera Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Priapulida Tardigrada Superphylum Platyzoa Acanthocephala Cycliophora Gastrotricha Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Platyhelminthes Rotifera Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Annelida Sipuncula Mollusca Nemertea Brachiopoda Bryozoa Phoronida Hyolitha † Entoprocta Dicyemida

Maist kent ainimal phyla appeared in the fossil record as marine species in the Cambrian explosion, aboot 542 million year syne. Ainimals is dealt intae sindry sub-groups, some o whilk is: vertebrates (birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish); molluscs (clams, eysters, octopuses, ink-fish, snails); arthropods (meggie-mony-feets, jennie-hunder-feets, insects, speeders, scorpions, keavies, lapsters, saund-clapper); annelids (yirdwirms, gells); spoonges; an loch-livers.