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Old 07-26-2018, 09:31 PM   #21
Edward64
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Uh, I don't know if this is for real. It's incredible. Pretty damn scary and pretty damn cool if it is.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/687559...nt-permafrost/
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The ancient roundworms — frozen since the era of woolly mammoths — started wriggling again in petri dishes at an institute near Moscow.

The team, who worked with geoscientists from Princeton University in the US, succeeded in coaxing the frozen worms back to life.

Their landmark report said: “We have obtained the first data demonstrating the capability of multicellular organisms for long-term cryobiosis in permafrost deposits of the Arctic".
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