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This website gives general information on flatworms. It gives examples of human lung fluke and tapeworms.
This video is from Shape of Life: The Story of the Animal Kingdom. The video describes the anatomy of a flatworm. The video points out that worms may have been the first hunters and all other hunters have followed the plan of the worms since the beginning of time. It explains how flatworms reproduce.
Mental Floss takes a viral video and goes to a biologist to find out what the organism is in the video. The article explains that biologists do not know a lot about ribbon worms, as there have been very few to study. It talks about the anatomy of the ribbon worm and where they can be found.
This Gross Science video explains the viral videos of the ribbon worms and what is going on in the viral videos. This video gives a brief overview of what a ribbon worm is.