Dormant worms from 46,000 years ago brought back to life after thawing

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 metres (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.

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[allansmith]

Let's see if we can put the worms in a bird cage

[Zoom-Zoom]

Just because you can do.
It doesn't mean you should do.

[integralogic]

Yay a new parasite for the humans hosts

[gordleith]

All that experience being a worm and he gets revived just after the cabinet shuffle.Oh the irony

[Joemamarickroll]

Why have they been revived ? Why is science always messing with things it probably shouldn’t kinda like Covid 19 gain of function . Just because we can doesn’t mean we should

[pabloleandro]

I think they got this totally wrong. There is a simple explanation.

[freedhhhhhhumb]

Did they say "woolly mammoth and freedumb convoyers" ?

They look the exact same I can't tell the difference