Marine flatworms are among the ocean’s most unique, albeit strange, organisms. Their undulating movements make them look like silk sheets underwater. Marine flatworms are skittish but are not uncommon ...

A team of scientists in southern China recently took a trip to the seashore, but the visit wasn’t a typical beach vacation. They were searching for unfamiliar-looking sea creatures. And they found one ...

All living organisms are equipped with sensory organs to detect changes in their surrounding environment. It may not immediately strike us as obvious but, similar to how we can sense heat, cold, light ...

Tiny marine flatworms called acoels hunt for prey in coral reefs. They’re referred to as “plant-animals” because they’ve got a partnership with photosynthetic algae that live inside of them. But this ...

Small marine creatures glide along the bottom of the reefs in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Laura Labrie via Unsplash On rocky reefs in the southern Gulf of Mexico, a diver or snorkeler overhead might ...

Meet one of Hawai‘i’s most ancient creatures: The free-living marine poly-clad flatworm. Through Christmas Eve, The Garden Island will share daily, front-page stories about famili ...

All life forms are endowed with the ability to sense gravity. However, the mechanism is not well-understood in acoels, a group of marine flatworms that represent a primitive invertebrate (without ...

Scientists found a “flat” sea animal with 170 eyes at a rocky shore in Guangdong Province and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Lin, Wang, Hu and Zhang (2024) A team of ...

These tiny marine flatworms are smaller than a grain of rice but have amazing abilities! Tiny marine flatworms called acoels hunt for prey in coral reefs. They're referred to as “plant-animals'' ...