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These sea cucumbers seem to have ‘zombie’ flesh that doesn’t die when lopped off

A scientist in St. John’s, N.L., has found that bits of flesh amputated from scarlet sea cucumbers can heal themselves and carry on in a state somewhere between life and death.Sara Jobson is a doctoral student in the ocean sciences department at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, and she is a co-author on a paper about the phenomena recently published in Science Advances.Jobson noted that typically, if someone lops off a chunk of flesh from an animal, the tissue will die — and it will be pretty obvious that it’s dying.But things are different for the scarlet sea cucumber,…

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