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Weird Wide Web - 24k old animal─── 18:55 Thu, 10 Jun 2021
The microscopic critters, known as bdelloid rotifers, immediately began eating and mating after scientists thawed them out of their 24 000 year stint in the Arctic permafrost.
Russian scientists found the bdelloid rotifers in a core of frozen soil extracted from the Siberian permafrost using a drilling rig, CNN reports.
Stas Malavin, a researcher at the Soil Cryology Laboratory at the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research in Russia, said: "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."
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