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 ...

Fertility treatments raise your odds of getting pregnant with more than one baby. When you carry twins, triplets, or more, pregnancy becomes more of a challenge. It’s also less likely that all ...

‌Sperm morphology refers to the form or shape of sperm, the male reproductive cell. Sperm of various plant and animal species differ from one another, sometimes in surprising ways. The sperm of ...

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 ...

The first of a series of murals created to honor Tehachapi's history and culture literally fell off the wall in 2013. Painted in the summer of 2002 by John Pugh, a noted mural artist, and New Zealand ...

Xenacoelomorpha is an enigmatic phylum, displaying various presumably simple or ancestral bilaterian features. This valuable study characterises the reproductive life history of Hofstenia miamia, a ...

Eventually, 11 flatworms, less than an inch long, were collected and brought back to the laboratory environment to be studied. Then researchers learned the worms belonged to a species new to science.