The new species belongs to a group of flatworms known as planarians, which are typically non-parasitic. The new species was found on the Leizhou Peninsula, on the southern coast of China. The research ...

The marine flatworm is one of the ocean's most bizarre creatures. Its movements and physiology are unlike any other marine organism.

Then researchers learned the worms belonged to a species new to science. Dugesia aconcinna, or the asymmetrical flatworm, is a species of “rather small” animals, reaching only 0.3 inches in ...

Roboticists have a habit of looking to nature for inspiration, and this time, they've turned to the humble marine flatworm.

If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes.