A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN
Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth.
The roundworm, of a previously unknown species, survived 40 meters (131.2 feet) below the surface in the Siberian permafrost in a dormant state known as cryptobiosis, according to Teymuras Kurzchalia, professor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and one of the scientists involved in the research....
One of the researchers, Anastasia Shatilovich, revived two of the worms at the institute by simply rehydrating them with water, before taking around 100 worms to labs in Germany for further analysis, transporting them in her pocket.
Please I'm begging you to increase your contamination protocols
If you're cold, they're cold. Put them in your pocket
God is such a troll for making the one animal that can revive and see a bunch of Earths history UNABLE TO FRICKEN TALK TO US.
God wtf man, I want to ask this worm about terrorbirds!
wot if the real tower of babel was that the one animal able to fricken talk to us is us
really makes u think
"Oh well... time to crawl up the ass of some megafauna. Just going to peak outside and... God damnit! You blew it up! You blew it all up! All those beautiful, wonderful, enormous anuses! Gone!"
And all thse anuses are full of fucking plastic, I can't eat that!!!
Organisms in a cryptobiotic state can endure the complete absence of water or oxygen and withstand high temperatures, as well as freezing or extremely salty conditions
let's splash water on mummies
Oh for fucks sake, now all the tech-bro dipshits who think they can freeze their dicks and brains to get revived in the future are going to get even more insufferable lmao
Gonna emulsify this guy and inject the soup-like homogenate to see if it gives me superpowers
