I've seen this on video, and it looks awkward.
SEX-starved worm can GIVE HEAD to ITSELF to reproduce
Bioboffins have found a species of flatworm, Macrostomum hystrix, that can reproduce by injecting its own head with its sperm. The spunky self-shagging slitherer is discussed in a paper titled Hypodermic self-insemination as a reproductive assurance strategy that's made it into the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The …
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Thursday 2nd July 2015 19:06 GMT x 7
despite what the author may think, this isn't actually novel research. I can remember reading of planarians with this ability in a specialised book 30 or more years ago. I can't remember the source, nor do have the online resources to track it down, but this IS an already known phenomenon.
That's the problem with modern science - theres so much of it, and so much old literature that keeping aware of it is impossible