Psolus fabricii, shown in this handout photo, is also known as the scarlet sea cucumber. The Canadian Press/Handout – Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Mercier Lab, Emaline Montgomery
A Canadian scientist has found that amputated bits of flesh cut from scarlet sea cucumbers can carry on for years in a strange new form, somewhere between life and death.
Sara Jobson is a doctoral student in the ocean sciences department at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, where she led the study that discovered what appears to be immortality of the sea cucumber’s tissue.
