A hydra’s appearance and eating habits alone give it a sci-fi feel, but its ability to regenerate its body — even its head — from only a scrap of tissue or pile of cells raises it to another ...

Near their mouthparts, hydra have a cluster of 50 to 300 cells called the head organizer; as its name implies, it directs the development of the head. If a hydra is beheaded, a new organizer can ...

Hydra heads aren’t true heads with brains -- instead, they are clusters of 50 to 300 cells near the creature’s mouth that organize development. The normal process by which a new head grows and splits ...

Researchers recently looked into how hydra regrow their heads. They found hydra use different genes when they regenerate a new head because of an injury than when they grow one during budding, a ...

The researchers found that when the animals were confined lengthwise, the result was a regeneration of two heads and often more than one foot. The discovery calls back to Greek mythology, in which ...

NEW. Therapy Center; ... One of the fiercest creatures in ancient Greek mythology was the Hydra. The serpent beast had many heads, ... when a head was severed, then more heads would grow in its place.