Cut off this worm's head, and the new one grows back with old memories intact

Planarian flatworms can regenerate a fully functional head, brain included, after decapitation. A 2013 study trained flatworms on a simple task, then cut off their heads; once new brains regrew, the worms performed the task faster than untrained worms, showing memory had somehow survived losing the organ that was supposedly storing it.

— Tal Shomrat, Michael Levin, An automated training paradigm reveals long-term memory in planarians and its persistence through head regeneration — Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013

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