A new bot addresses that issue by utilizing a swimming mechanism inspired by flatworms. Although marine flatworms generally stay on the seabed, they can swim through open water by undulating their ...

That sharp-eyed discovery led to a years-long international effort, including researchers from N.C. State University, to determine just what type of predatory flatworm had been spotted in the Tar ...

WESTERN COUNTIES EASILY COULD SEE SIX INCHES OF RAIN, POSSIBLY A FOOT OR MORE OF RAIN, ESPECIALLY I Scientists have discovered a new species of predatory flatworm in North Carolina. A commercial ...

Roundworms, also known as ascarids or nematodes, are common parasites that live inside your dog’s intestines. They feed on partly digested food. Most dogs get them at one time or another ...

There are at least 20,000 different species, but the main three types include flatworms, roundworms and segmented worms, according to Britannica. The earthworm, the worms you commonly see after it ...

Luckily, there is a difference between parasite stowaways and problematic parasitic infection. Flatworms, flukes, and roundworms are most responsible for parasitic worm infections. Tapeworm exposure ...

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 ...

The activation adjusts the roundworm's trajectory toward higher salt concentrations. The finding pinpoints the neural mechanism by which roundworms integrate sensory and motor information ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Unless you know what you're looking for, there's a good chance your backyard is loaded with invasive flatworms without you knowing it. The small, toxic worm is a New ...

These flatworms can grow well over a foot long. They eat other fauna on the ground, including roundworms, by excreting a paralyzing toxin. “It’s an outside-of-their-body digestion,” Raupp says.

HOUSTON — Scientists have woken up a 46,000-year-old roundworm. They said the roundworm, which was of a previously unknown species, spent those tens of thousands of years deep in the Siberian ...

2:48 46,000-year-old worms squirm back to life after thawing from Siberian permafrost By very slowly and gently thawing the roundworms, also called nematodes, researchers were able to get them to ...