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Hey, So These Sea Slugs Decapitate Themselves and Grow New Bodies – WIRED
Showing off their best impressions of Deadpool, the animals survived for weeks without organs, only to regrow everything and go about their business.
Imagine biologist Sayaka Mitohs surprise the day she found that a sea slug in her lab was suddenly missing its body. Or its head, reallydepends on your perspective. Either way, the sea slug was in two pieces, both of which seemed to be alive, in the sense that they were both still moving. Somehow, they kept on living for days, and then weeks, even though the head was minus a heart and digestive system.
Among biologists, this kind of body-splitting maneuver is known as autotomylizards, for instance,…
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