Flatworm Facts: WORMS that can live INSIDE YOU | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover some worms that can live inside you (let's hope not though). These parasites may all sorts of animals their hosts. Learn facts about flatworms in this quick flatworm facts video!

Scientific Name: Phylum - Platyhelminthes
Range: Cosmopolitan
Habitat: Inside host organisms, land, and water
Size: 1 inch - 50 feet (2.54cm-15.24m) long
Diet: Host nutrients, protozoa, crabs, molluscs, and more
Threats: Fish and more
Life span: Varies by species

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Image and Video Credits:
rickylalone -    • Cool Flatworm Hitchhiker  
Nephthys Uk -    • Flatworms: Graceful with Poor Eyesight  
Wicked Diving -    • Komodo Liveaboard Flatworm  
Deathbydorfattack -    • Unknown Flatworm Moving Around  
Richard Fuchs -    • Swimming gold-dotted flatworm  
Adventures Underwater by Henning Laatsch -    • 146 Flatworm over the ground ADVENTUR...  
Adolfo Outeiro -    • Stenostomum sp. (?)(Fam. Stenostomida...  ;    • Platelminto nº 6. (F. Platyhelminthes)  
Nico4nicola -    • Hammerhead worm  
Notdunroamin -    • Notdunroamin: Hammerhead Slug in Borneo  
Fossa -    • Monogenea  
Masatsugu Yamazaki - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Gilles San Martin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanmart...
Liam Clancy - https://www.flickr.com/photos/metafea...
Maximillian Paradiz - https://www.flickr.com/photos/metafea...
Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/metafea... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied... https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernied...
Junpei Abe - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2695863...
Steve Childs - https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_c... https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_c...
Elias Levy - https://www.flickr.com/photos/elevy/1...
prilfish - https://www.flickr.com/photos/silkeba... https://www.flickr.com/photos/silkeba...
Lakshmi Sawitri - https://www.flickr.com/photos/elsaw/3...
Alex Popvkin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/plants_...
Pavel Kirillov - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasha_k...
Cicra24 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Eduard Sola - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugesia...
Andreas Neudecker - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CNX OpenStax - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Frank Fox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozo...
Etienne Gosse - https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_c...

Research Credits:
https://sites.google.com/site/flatwor...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/fla...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-an...
http://diveadvisor.com/sub2o/fantasti...
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/87958.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatworm
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-a...
http://mentalfloss.com/article/79968/...

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