It might sound like something out of a Hollywood sci-fi movie — bringing a 46,000-year-old frozen worm ‘back to life’ after digging it up in Siberia.
But that is exactly what scientists revealed they had done in a landmark study published yesterday.
The experts managed to ‘resurrect’ a long-extinct roundworm from a hibernation-like state known as cryptobiosis, which allowed it to survive the harsh frozen temperatures.
Experts previously thought that roundworms could only remain in this state for less than