The green-banded broodsac is one of nature’s most horrifying parasites, invading snails and transforming their eyestalks into brightly colored, pulsating decoys that mimic juicy caterpillars. Once ...

From iron-snatching compounds to gene-targeting breakthroughs, scientists are finding novel ways to outsmart parasites that have plagued humans for centuries. These innovations target weak points in ...

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Planarian flatworms, a diverse assemblage of free-living Platyhelminthes, have long challenged taxonomists owing to their limited morphological features and prevalence of cryptic diversity. Over the ...

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden collected wild flatworms from Malmö's largest park, Pildammsparken. These creatures are masters at regenerating after injury. Now, for the first time, the ...

Phylogenetic analysis of flatworm diversity has undergone a transformative shift through the integration of genome‐scale datasets, mitochondrial genomics and high‐throughput transcriptomics. Early ...

Lund University. A research team at Lund University was recently contacted by researchers at a Korean skincare company. They were interested in studying the regenerative capacity of Scandinavian ...

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden collected wild flatworms from Malmo's largest park, Pildammsparken. These creatures are masters at regenerating after injury. Now, for the first time, the ...

The ruffled flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi (also known as the Persian carpet flatworm or Bedford’s flatworm) can be hard to spot with the human eye as they make their way through the reefs of the ...