The zombie worm
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A fascinating discovery pulled from Siberia's permafrost has shed light on the possibility of life surviving in icy conditions and ignited fresh hope for the future of cryopreservation.
Scientists have recovered a 24,000-year-old worm-like creature called a rotifer from a sample of permafrost, as the Indian Defence Review reported.
According to the analysis published in the journal Current Biology, it had remained frozen since the Late Pleistocene.\
Under meticulous laboratory conditions, they thawed the tiny creature — a multicellular but microscopic organism — and were delighted to see it begin to move and function again as if it had never been frozen.
In fact, not only did the rotifer move, but it even reproduced asexually, creating more like it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/24-000-old-zombie-worm-190000101.html
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