Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black eggs while piloting a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Pacific Ocean at ...

After further DNA examination, the team confirmed that these creatures were a previously undescribed species of the phylum Platyhelminth.

Article citations More>> Prudhoe, S. and Bray, R.A. (1982) Platyhelminth Parasites of the Amphibia. British Musuem of Natural History. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Abundance, ...

Jet-Black Eggs Found In The Pacific Abyss Reveal A New Wormy World Record “I cut one of them and a milky liquid-like thing leaked from it.” ...

The drug praziquantel (PZQ) is the key clinical therapy for treating schistosomiasis and other infections caused by parasitic flatworms. A schistos ...

Researchers have recently discovered an endoparasitic tapeworm fossil from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber that is approximately 100 million years old.

According to Luo Cihang, the first author of the study, “The current find is the most convincing body fossil of a platyhelminth ever found.” As per the research, the tapeworm might have hooked ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

This means that outside of ‘potential platyhelminth’ from a wood fall and deep record of another species little else is known. A new study adds to our limited knowledge of these beasties. Flatworm egg ...