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It’s the time of the year when hammerhead flatworms start making their way into the news cycle again, so here’s another story to add to the pile. Flatworms are predators that prey on soft-bodied ...

For years, land flatworms were thought to spread mostly through plant sales. Worms or their eggs would hitch a ride in potted soil, move through nurseries, and end up in new gardens. That explained ...

Four years ago, an alert worker at a plant nursery in Kinston saw a strange looking worm in some ornamental plants they had recently received from Georgia while they were being repotted. That ...

A newly discovered type of flatworm found in Italy and France has been dubbed “Humbertium covidum” after the global COVID-19 pandemic, scientists say. Pierre Gros Scientists who discovered two new ...

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“Alien” species of predatory hammerhead worms – including a spectacularly iridescent green-blue specimen – identified in Europe and Africa. An international team led by Professor Jean-Lou Justine from ...