WATCH — The freaky, frozen science of 46,000-year-old roundworms | Video
Scientists identified that a roundworm, thawed from the last ice age 46,000 years ago, was an entirely new species. #AnimalNews
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Scientists identified that a roundworm, thawed from the last ice age 46,000 years ago, was an entirely new species. #AnimalNews
Researchers have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago which were below the surface in the Siberian permafrost in a dormant state.
Scientists in Russia were thawing a sample of Siberian permafrost, when they found something completely unexpected — a pair of living roundworms that were in a state of suspended animation for more than 46,000 years.
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A dormant soil nematode was taken from the Siberian Permafrost and reanimated. Later it started multiplying in its petri dish. Read more here