Flatworms have a peculiar characteristic: when sliced in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete flatworm, just like the original one [📹 PBS Deep Look]

So how many flatworms did you kill today? Me:

Now cut one horizontally. 🧐

Planarians have amazing stem cells that can transform into any cell type needed for regeneration. They can regenerate new heads, tails, sides, or entire organisms from small body fragments in a process taking days to weeks. Application in medicine is being explored

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Undefeated

makes me wanna try a shredder

An ocean dwelling ribbon worm

Yes, that's correct! Flatworms have a remarkable ability called regeneration, which allows them to regrow lost body parts. When a flatworm is sliced into pieces, each piece has the potential to regenerate and develop into a complete flatworm. This unique characteristic has fascinated scientists for many years and has led to research on regeneration and tissue engineering. PBS Deep Look likely provides interesting insights into this topic in their video.

Man I’m glad those aren’t conscious. For their sake.

Wait so now they're all indivindual beings? So can they reproduce with eachother?