..:. Cracking My Vainpot .:..

Imagine you're clipping away, scattering toe nails everywhere.

Then slowly, each of these filthy (ex) parts of you spontaneously grow into your identical twins.

Freaky.

Well that's flatworm for ya.



Flatworms are truly wonderful creatures, despite their reputation.

If you cut their heads off, they'll just grow a new one back.

In fact, you can put one on a chopping board, dice it into hundreds of little pieces, and each bit will grow back into a full worm~!!

But that's not all.

Some guy back in the 1950s trained flatworms to avoid light by pairing light with electric shocks. He then chopped the buggers into 2 halves and let them grow back into 2 whole worms.

The old tail grew a new head... AND knew it should avoid light!!

Memory storage *outside* the head??!

Totally crazy stuff.

You could even transfer such learning and memory by mincing trained students and feed it to new students!

No kidding. I was hysterical after reading this.

Funny how scientists just sorta "forgot" about these experiments, cos hardly anybody under the age of 75 are aware of them now.

Well may be in 50 years' time, the next next generation too would look back at my work and go, Jez what a nut case what was he thinking!

Source: Durham University