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42,000 years have survived permafrost: two live thawed Pleistocene worms
Those who relax so much may be hungry: two Pleistocene female nematodes, also frozen in permafrost for 42,000 years, are thawed alive and are now eating well. They are considered the oldest living animals in the world today.
The thaw experiment with 300 prehistoric worms was held at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow in collaboration with Princeton University. The result is considered a great scientific breakthrough. "Our data show the ability of multicellular organisms to survive long-term (tens of thousands of years) under conditions of natural cryopreservation," said Siberian Times researchers involved in the study. This clearly indicates that "Pleistocene nematodes have coping mechanisms that may be of scientific and practical importance in related scientific fields, such as cryomedicine, cryobiology and astrobiology."
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The two worms came from regions of Yakutia, the coldest region of Russia. That of about 32,000 years ago comes from a squirrel in a permafrost wall in a Pleistocene park. The other 47,000-year-old worm was found in the permafrost on the Alazeya River in 2015.
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