This Worm Remembers After Being Cut Into 279 Pieces 🪱 #science #viral #mindblown

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]This worm can be cut into 279 pieces and each piece becomes a new worm with the same memories. Meet the planarian, a freshwater flatworm that's basically immortal. Scientists train them to find food in a maze, then chop them up. The regrown worms, they still remember the maze.

[00:00:20]Here's where it gets insane. Their eyes aren't really eyes. They're light-detecting pits that give them a permanent cross-eyed stare. And if you cut off its head, it grows a new brain in 7 days.

[00:00:32]But the most disturbing part? Some species can eat themselves during starvation and shrink to 1/1000th their size, then regenerate back when food returns. They literally cannot die of old age.

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