(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India has found that the visual processing capabilities of the planarian flatworm are much more complex than has ...

Planarians, the tiny flatworms famed for their regeneration superpowers, are revealing surprising secrets about their genomes. New high-quality genome assemblies show that while their DNA structure ...

A new study shows that dogs and cats may be helping an invasive flatworm spread. Researchers analyzing over a decade of reports discovered the worm attached to pet fur. Its sticky mucus and ability to ...

Unlike most multicellular animals, planarian flatworms can regrow all their body parts after they are removed. This makes them a good model for studying the phenomenon of tissue regeneration. They are ...

Polyclad flatworms represent a diverse and ecologically significant group of marine invertebrates whose complex morphology and evolutionary history have attracted considerable scientific attention.

As if it were ripped straight from the pages of a classic sci-fi story or horror genre film, scientists from Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads and ...

For years, land flatworms were thought to spread mostly through plant sales. Worms or their eggs would hitch a ride in potted soil, move through nurseries, and end up in new gardens. That explained ...

A tiny flatworm may help solve a big problem in medicine. Scientists found that particles from these worms can speed up skin ...

Be warned: hammerhead flatworms are an invasive species that’s spreading across several states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. But what exactly are hammerhead flatworms? “It ...

Scientists report that electrical activity is the first known step in the tissue-regeneration process of planarian flatworms, starting before the earliest known genetic machinery kicks in and setting ...