Josh Clark

Like it's basically like a caterpillar soup for a while.

And some of the cells keep their form generally or at least stay attached to one another.

So those leg cells break.

They change.

They look different.

Like a caterpillar's actual true legs look different from the butterfly's true legs, but they're still the same cells.

They rearrange themselves a little bit.

Most of the other cells just completely come apart, turn into imaginal cells, which are analogous to our stem cells, and that they can turn into any kind of cell.

And then it reconfigures itself using the same cells, same amount, same everything.

Mm-hmm.

into a butterfly.

It reconfigures itself over the course of about two weeks.

It's unbelievable.

I don't understand it.

This is where I think that science is kind of thrown off.

The best explanation I saw is that it's better than having two things compete for the same food source.

But that doesn't really make any sense, you know, because that doesn't make any sense to me at all.

I don't understand that.

But that was the best explanation I saw, and I didn't even understand it.

Yeah.