Flatworms, also known as Platyhelminthes, constitute a phylum of about 20,000 species of rather uncomplicated invertebrates characterized by their soft bodies and lack of segmentation. They differ ...

Marine flatworms are skittish but are not uncommon around coral reefs. Vibrant, bold hues like the Platyhelminthes in this video by @ocean.life.explorer are hard to miss, but what are they ...

We can also add the Ctenophores, the comb jellies, into this lone door group of animals. In the flatworms, the Platyhelminthes, its mixed bag of one, two, and even more bodily gateways. Most flatworms ...

Humans have had a long history. 3.8 million years in the making, to be precise. From the primordial puddle to the modern day, here's how humans have evolved. The following is a review of the life ...

Platyhelminthes - flatworms - are one of the most diverse invertebrate phyla, with 100,000s of species in all aquatic habitats, and a major radiation of some of the most iconic vertebrate parasites (e ...

Hammerhead worms are a part of the phylum Platyhelminthes, which includes all flatworms. This genealogical membership gives them the ability to become two different, genetically identical ...

Field research in a limestone cave in the Brazilian savanna recorded the first obligate cave-dwelling flatworm of the ... of the suborder Continenticola (Platyhelminthes) in South America.

Cestodes (tapeworms) form a monophyletic group of parasitic Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and include over 5200 described species. Adult cestodes reproduce in the digestive tract of vertebrates, but ...

The disease it causes, dracunculiasis, is particularly disgusting. Credit: National Center for Disease Control (India) Platyhelminthes (flatworms) saw parasitism evolve 13 times. Liver flukes and ...