Killer flatworms hunt with poison.

Science News for Kids | February 22, 2006| | Copyright

Five years ago, marine biologist Raphael Ritson-Williams was collecting flatworms in the waters around the Pacific island of Guam, when he found a new species. He put the oval, filmy, yellow flatworm in a container for further study.

On the same collecting trip, Ritson-Williams picked up a type of shelled sea creature called a cowrie and put it in the same container with the flatworm. He planned to give the cowrie to a friend who was studying these mollusks.

When he checked the container after a while, however, something had changed. The flatworm "was ...

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