Time travel has been mastered by a tiny worm which was reawakened after being frozen for an estimated 46,000 years.
Believed to have lived in the late
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Back from the dead! Ancient roundworm is revived after lying dormant in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years
Back from the dead! Ancient roundworm is revived after lying dormant in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years
- Long-extinct worms were in a dormant state while frozen in Siberian permafrost
- These worms were revived after scientists supplied them with water and food