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> apparently, it'll split, and then you have TWO of them. This sounds like a myth to me so I tried to confirm / debunk it. It seems that all the online reporti
by yreg 3y ago
> apparently, it'll split, and then you have TWO of them.
This sounds like a myth to me so I tried to confirm / debunk it. It seems that all the online reporting goes back to a story about a specimen found in Woking aquatics[0].
The store manager said that when the worm broke into three pieces, the head piece lived on and the middle piece moved around as well.
I'm not confident that means that the middle piece grew a new head and continued to live.
Can anyone here shed more light on this?
[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-24523612.amp https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-24523612.amp
edit: btw, the story linked by the parent is great
- ceejayoz 3y agoIt's certainly plausible. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/bobbit-worms-split-sections-regenerate-6236955 https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/bobbit-worms-spl... > Marine biologist Dr Nicholas Higgs - who works at Plymouth University's Marine Institute and was a PhD student at the Natural History Museum in London - said: "Many species of bristle worm have the ability to regenerate parts of their body, even the head or tail.