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There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but ...
Hofstenia, or panther worms, [1] is a genus of worms belonging to the family Hofsteniidae. [2] They are recognized for their ability to regenerate any missing tissue type and recover body axes following injury [3] including a functional brain during whole-body regeneration. [4] The Hofstenia body is populated by neoblast -like cells, [3] adult ...
“It will regenerate,” Ashley Morgan-Olvera of the Texas Invasive Species Institute told KHOU. “So if you chop it into two pieces, you get two worms." “So if you chop it into two pieces ...
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition suggests edible insects as a solution to the “rising costs of animal protein, food and feed insecurity, environmental pressures, population growth ...
Planaria is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. Due to its excellent ability to regenerate, species of Planaria has also been used as model organisms in regeneration studies. [1] When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual. [2]
Onychophora / ɒ n ɪ ˈ k ɒ f ə r ə / (from Ancient Greek: ονυχής, onyches, "claws"; and φέρειν, pherein, "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus / p ə ˈ r ɪ p ə t ə s / (after the first described genus, Peripatus), is a phylum of elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged animals.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have made major headway in understanding a strange and elusive species of snake-like worm. These 'Dune'-like worms are tiny but act more like ...
Biological immortality. Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence (or aging) is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either ...