Can Flatworms Die

In a lab in MIT, a flatworm is dying. It’s a planarian – a simple animal that is normally very difficult to kill. Planarians

Can you kill a flatworm?

Cutting them up doesn’t work because all the pieces will grow back into healthy worms. To kill them — and that’s important to do — spray them with strong orange oil mixtures. Or, even better, put them in a jar with a strong orange oil mixture.

Can flatworms die of old age?

Most animal in the world gradually tend to lose this ability as they age, thus causing them to get older, function improperly and eventually die. The flatworm not only is able to regenerate its old, dead cells, but it can literary grow a new brain, gut or tail when severed in two.