Video released by the laboratory captured the wriggling movements of the tiny microorganism as it reemerged from its frozen state. (Soil Cryology Laboratory) The bdelloid rotifer is awake - and we're going to need to buy some more birthday candles. For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism has been snoozing in Siberian permafrost, having become frozen in the Arctic ice right around the same time in history that humans first ventured into North America during the Upper Paleolithi