Tiny arctic animals resurrected after 24,000 years in the deep freeze
Credit: Michael Plewka “Our report is the hardest proof as of today that multicellular animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis, the state of almost completely arrested metabolism,” said study co-author Stas Malavin, of the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Pushchino, Russia, in a press release. According to researchers' report published in the online journal Current Biology, these microscopic multicellular lifeforms were obtained from samples gathered by remote drilling rigs in the middle reaches of the Alazeya River in t...