Friday, March 14, 2008

Float Like A Butterfly, Remember Like A Moth

A biologist at Georgetown University has shown that adult moths can remember things that happened to them when they were larval caterpillars, even after surviving the metamorphosis that turns their brains and bodies into soup before the mush re-forms as a moth. Unfortunately they only live about a week, so they don't retain the memory very long.

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