Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years::A soil nematode reanimated from Siberian permafrost had laid dormant for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study publishing July 27, 2023 in the open access journal PLOS Genetics by Anastasia Shatilovich at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia, Vamshidhar Gade at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany, and colleagues.
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Would this make it the oldest living animal on earth then? Fascinating.
Welp, I know where the zombie apocalypse will start from.
Wait til it hears about what happened with Twitter…and Cleopatra!
Guess humans will have to copy these creatures if we want to travel in space sleeping in some frozen container.
My first thought too
Doug Funnie on high alert