With people constantly on their phones, the scientists said, ensuring the emoji biodiversity ... featured marine animals, even though 70% of the planet is the sea, Ficetola said.

The fungus kingdom has one measly mushroom emoji (🍄 ... conditions that would kill many other animals — like environments found in the deep sea, polar regions and even space.

Which plant or animal emoji would you like to add ... What do you think should be added to the range of sea creatures on offer - or do you think there are enough emojis already?

If that doesn't work then perhaps the idea of a bagel, cupcake or teddy bear emoji might. Or new animal emoji like a kangaroo, lobster and llama. Or maybe a "woozy face" or "partying face ...

Outside of biology, people often use nature emoji because of their indirect meanings. Animal emoji, especially, carry secondary connotations that can be positive or negative (think the butterfly ...

To celebrate World Animal Day, a new tricky emoji quiz has been released. Puzzlers are tasked with figuring out the animal name from the emojis used and the average time to complete the baffling ...

But only two of them — plants and animals — have any significant presence in the emoji library. All single-cell organisms are represented by a lone, nondescript “microbe” emoji (🦠 ...