A snake’s head can still bite after being cut off. Its body also moves for some time. If you cut a flatworm, both parts can grow into new worms. It can grow a new head. An octopus’s arms can move and ...

A study recently published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology offers new insight into a long-standing puzzle in human development: why people with higher intelligence tend to reproduce later ...

Shenzhou-20, the latest manned spacecraft to venture into space, carries not only astronauts but also a unique passenger: flatworms, referred to by scientists as the 'biological孙悟空' (Sun Wukong of ...

complete flatworms. They can regenerate digestive systems, reproductive organs, sensory structures, and muscle tissue. Planarians also use regeneration as a form of asexual reproduction—they can split ...

Institute for Sustainable Food Research Fellow, Dr Jess Dunn, has been awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fellowship to explore plant reproductive physiology in ...