Anna Tyshinski

I don't know why they didn't just ask, you know, do you remember 9-11 or whatever?

But that's how they did it.

And they remember their upbringing, even though it's a different head.

Is it like talking to them from inside?

He didn't clean the maze out.

Yeah.

And they're also, there's so many firsts in the flatworm world.

So they're incredibly old.

They're about 839 million years old.

I'm going to take away the about because that's a very precise number.

They are 839 million years old.

They're probably the first hunter and the first thing that moved with any kind of purpose rather than just floating like plankton.

So they chose what direction to go and moved.

They're the first animals with a nervous system, a head, a brain, eyes.

They're the first animal ever to internally fertilize rather than just leaving eggs around.

And they were the first bilaterally symmetrical animals, i.e.

ones with left and right sides like pretty much all animals we know today.

They pioneered that, having a left and right side.

So obviously you get like jellyfish and stuff or stuff that's symmetrical in lots of directions.

But yeah, and I was looking up other, I was looking up asymmetrical animals.