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Japanese scientists discover sea slugs that decapitate their own heads, grow new bodies

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TOKYO - Japanese researchers have identified two species of sea slugs that have the ability to detach their own heads from their bodies, move around and grow entirely new bodies.

Ecologists from Nara Women’s University in Japan published a study in the scientific journal Cell in which they identified two species of sacoglossan sea slug demonstrating the miraculous event.

Researchers say that these animals were able to separate their heads from their hearts and body. The heads were then able to move around independently from its own body immediately after separation.

Scientists say the wound from the separated heads would heal within a matter of days. The slug would feed on algae, and a new heart would be regenerated within a week.

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