Ice Age worm wakes up after 46,000 years frozen
A worm frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years — since woolly mammoths still roamed — was thawed in a lab dish and simply woke up, began eating, and started reproducing, because its species can shut its metabolism down to a complete standstill in a survival state biologists call cryptobiosis | Brendan Brown, ScienceBlog Forty … Read more