Tuesday 6 March 2018

Indestructible Creatures Flatworms



Have you heard of a Flatworm?

They range in size from a grain of rice to a foot long, damn that would be a long ass worm. They are leaf-shaped creatures that usually live in water, many of them have an incredible ability to regenerate or regrow their body parts.

Now if these worms are chopped in half each half will become a whole new worm. In experiments scientists have even cut a flatworm into a hundred tiny parts and every part grew into a new worm.

Technical stuff The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates

In other family news I have Leo here all day as he sill feels sick but I can tell he is improving, I took him to a doctor this morning who said it is just a bug and he should be ok tomorrow. His mother has been feeling unwell today herself. Also Blain is off school with the same thing. I hope I don't end up with it.

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  1. I remember in school splitting the head of one of those and watching it turn into a two headed worm...

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    1. We never did cool things like that when I was in school

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  2. Hi Joanne - I hope you don't all get the dreaded bug ... flatworms are invasive to our British earthworms, which are essential to living soil - as Dickens found out ... cheers Hilary

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    1. Kathy has the same bug now, yes worms are important

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  3. Hi, Jo-Anne!

    That was an interesting lesson about the flatworm, one of nature's best examples of a creature that can survive traumatic injury and regenerate.

    I hope those in your family that were "poorly' are feeling much better at this hour. Stay well, dear friend Jo-Anne!

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    1. Yes an interesting creature, Leo is much better should be going to school tomorrow,Kathy is off work as she has it now

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  4. Yes, in school we did slice and dice small flatworms to see them regrow. Very strange little creatures. Can't imagine a really big one.

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  5. Did not need to see those worms!
    Hope Leo feels better soon.

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  6. Those worms sound like nasty creatures. I hope you stay well, too.

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  7. Interesting facts about the flatworm! Hope those who have been sick recover soon. Take care!

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    1. Interesting and weird, both Leo and Blain are well now but Kathy now has it

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  8. I hope you are getting back to now,Let hoping with us very weird.
    my sis alright too now...
    Please take care!
    Michiko

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