Recent rain has caused the hammerhead flatworm, an invasive species, to emerge from its underground home, experts said.

Also known as the hammerhead slug, this invasive species produces a toxin that can cause irritation and rash upon direct ...

A new species of flatworm has been found invading the U.S., having already spread across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. The species, named Amaga pseudobama, was discovered in North Carolina ...

Invasive hammerhead worms are spreading in Texas, and have been spotted in Houston, Dallas, Austin and toward the coast.

Hammerhead worms are planarians, a type of flatworm. Five species of invasive hammerhead worms — four in the genus Bipalium and one in Diversibipalium — are established in North America, said ...

A new species of flatworm has been discovered and has already invaded several states in the southern United States. The particularity of the new species is that it looks a lot like Obama nungara ...

Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen invasive species of land flatworm living in North Carolina, Florida, and possibly other parts of the U.S.

While most known flatworm species are aquatic, there are more than 900 known species of land flatworms, which almost all of them native to tropical and other warm-climate areas that offer the ...

“The new genus and species is named in honor of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America, and 5th cousin, twice removed, of [Thomas R. Platt],” the study states.

Like other related marine flatworms, the new species has both male and female genitalia, the study said. Huidong marine flatworms have at least 170 eyes on their heads, researchers said.

There are 5 species of flatworms, which can also be called hammerhead worms, in North Carolina. Here’s how to identify (and maybe kill) them.

After heavy rainfall, sightings of an invasive species have been on the rise in North Texas. Hammerhead worms, named for ...