Deep-sea Discovery: Flatworm Embryos Found at Record Depth in Pacific Ocean Trench
Scientists from the University of Tokyo and Hokkaido University have discovered black egg capsules containing flatworm embryos at a staggering depth of 20,300 feet in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean. This marks the deepest recorded reproduction of free-living flatworms, a si... [More info]
Deep-sea Discovery: Flatworm Embryos Found at Record Depth in Pacific Ocean Trench
What does the discovery of flatworm embryos at a record depth of 20,300 feet in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench tell us about the adaptability of life in extreme deep-sea environments? @aibot
Story sparks don't always come hot and factual; sometimes they come from memes that lie. I stumbled on one saying “male flatworms duel with their penises to see who gets pregnant.” Flatworms cock-fight. Winner becomes father, loser becomes mother; sometimes both become both.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/21/when-a-meme-lies-but-the-story-survives/
#writing #WritingTips #Story #Stories #biomimicry #flatworms #intersex #biology #literaryfiction #speculativefiction #AmWriting #Writing #Reading #Gender #Power #sex #ideas #books #Snark
To find the subject of my PhD in the garden pond at my very Cambridge college, that made my day.
Planaria, genus Schmidtea, swimming near the surface:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/270690367
19-Feb-2025
A miniature swimming robot inspired by marine flatworms
EPFL engineers have developed a versatile swimming #robot that nimbly navigates cluttered water surfaces. Inspired by marine #flatworms
the innovative device offers new possibilities for environmental monitoring and ecological research.
Pseudoceros #flatworms are pretty :) #biodiversity #iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations... (I took these in Asian waters around 2024)
Just in time for
#FossilFriday: Fossil constraints on the origin and evolution of #Platyhelminthes are surprisingly concordant with modern molecular #phylogenies:
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e24002
#flatworms
#paleobiology
#paleontology
#fossils
#paleoparasitology
#helminths
#flatworms
Heads or Tails? 🪙
Clare Booth, Erin Davies & team characterise the developmental onset of regeneration in the flatworm Schmidtea polychroa. #preprint
Take a look at the latest preLight from Isabella Cisneros #preLightsAmbassador ⬇️ 👀
#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/axis-reset-is-rate-limiting-for-onset-of-whole-body-regenerative-abilities-during-planarian-development/
#biology #development #flatworms #regeneration #planarians #neoblasts
Already my favourite "PS of the Day" (a category which I introduce right now) in the lower part (no pun intended) of the Simply Science newsletter from @theeconomist.
The newsletter is mainly about fly brains, but(t):
#theeconomist #science #flatworms #psoftheday #simplyscience #anusfree
Gutless, solar-powered worms genetically control their resident algae.
The tiny #flatworms called acoels seem pretty simple. Their internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.
Some acoel species host photosynthesizing algae that provide energy in exchange for safe housing, a classic #symbiosis.
These worms manipulate their live-in algae’s gene activity during their extreme act of regeneration.
#biology #ecology #evolution
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/regenerating-deep-sea-worms-harness-live-in-algae-as-they-split-into-three/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Flat Worms:
🎵 Letters From the Outpost
#FlatWorms
#newRelease 🆕 single
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Flat Worms:
🎵 Letters From the Outpost
#FlatWorms
#newRelease 🆕 single
When I was a child, I used to go through my Dad's #invertebrate #zoology textbook left over from college.
I remember being fascinated by the #worm you could cut down the middle and it would grow two heads.
Who knew this would be relevant to current events almost 60 years later?!
Flat Worms "See You at the Show" (Official Music Video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8gSa3QJZjI “ #FlatWorms #GOD #WitnessMarks ” #YouTube
Scientists Find Mysterious, Oozing Black Eggs Almost 4 Miles Below The Ocean's Surface
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-mysterious-oozing-black-eggs-almost-4-miles-below-the-oceans-surface #eggs #OceanDepths #flatworms #platyhelminth
(Edit: corrected subfamily).
Happy to spot this Hammerhead Worm (subfamily Bipaliinae) at Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore, on 3 Feb 2024. The area was moist enough to tempt this one to come out into the open for me to get shots.
Hammerhead Worms are predatory flatworms that feed on earthworms or mollusks.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198286773 ]
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Flatworms #LandPlanarians #Geoplanidae
Dark eggs found on #ocean floor represent deepest free-living #flatworms ever observed https://phys.org/news/2024-01-dark-black-eggs-ocean-floor.html
#Flatworm cocoons in the abyss: same plan under pressure https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0506
"The black clutch of eggs was discovered by Yasunori Kano as he was piloting a remote undersea vehicle in NW Pacific. He collected samples at a depth of 6,200 meters. After initial testing, the researchers discovered that the eggs represented something rare—they sent a trawling ship for more specimens"
Parasite of the Day: Euglenaformis parasitica
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/12/euglenaformis-parasitica.html
"#Euglena and its kin are mostly free-living, photosynthesizing when the sun's out, absorbing organic matter from the environment when it's dark. But the ancestor of E. parasitica was not content with this mostly peaceful lifestyle, and has evolved to live inside the body of #animals. These #euglenids were found parasitising #ostracods & #flatworms in a rice field in #Ibaraki, #Japan."
