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It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

harmjschoonhoven

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"The process of regeneration is normally 100 per cent accurate - they never make two-headed worms in the wild,"

Two-headed Dugesia japonica can be bred with Praziquantel, a common deworming medication for cats and dogs.

What's even more surprising is that even after the ends of the flatworm were chopped off, it always regrew with two heads.

It would be interesting to see what happens if two-headed flatworms are regrown in a centrifuge. Russians grew crystals in microgravitity and in centrifuges with suprising results.

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