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Ancient Worm Resurrected After 46,000 Years of Death-Defying Limbo

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Ancient Worm Resurrected After 46,000 Years of Death-Defying Limbo

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Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

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An international effort to revive an ancient roundworm, frozen in Siberian permafrost for millennia, has unleashed a lifeform even older than scientists once thought.

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Oh ancient cryptobiosis worm, take away our pain, bring peace at long last, all hail to thee.
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  I, for one, welcome our new wriggly overlords!
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  I think I’ve seen this one before…

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