Space-Traveling Flatworms (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Space-Traveling Flatworms

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An amputated flatworm fragment sent to space regenerated into a double-headed worm, a rare spontaneous occurrence of double-headedness.

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Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University.

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