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Flatworms

Flatworm Videos

Phyla

  • Flatworms: The First Hunter

Animation

  • Flatworm Animation: Body Plan
  • Flatworm Animation: Tapeworm
  • Flatworm Animation: Reproduction

Behavior

  • Flatworms: Reproduction
  • Flatworms: An Invasive Flatworm Hunts Earthworms

General Info

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Role in Ecosystem

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Climate

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Human Interaction

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Paleontology

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    Lesson Plan
    Who Was "Hunter Eve?"
    The paleontological evidence of the first animal to hunt is tiny trails that have been fossilized in rocks. To start this lesson, students will consider the tracks and traces left by modern animals and what they can learn about an animal from its tracks. They then think about which animal might have been the first hunter. The class considers what it takes to be a hunter and what kind of evidence can we use to figure out what was the first hunter. Students write their ideas in their science notebooks and the teacher shares the ideas with the entire class.

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    Factsheet
    Flatworms: An Ancient Body Plan
    Around 20,000 flatworm species today have the same basic body plan that appeared roughly 500 million years ago.

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    Reading
    Flatworms: Getting Ahead, An Explosion of Life
    When you collect marine animals, there are certain flatworms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of seawater.

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