CNNのインスタグラム(cnn) - 7月29日 02時45分

Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth.

The roundworm, of a previously unknown species, survived about 130 feet below the surface in the Siberian permafrost in a dormant state known as cryptobiosis, according to Teymuras Kurzchalia, one of the scientists involved in the research.

"One can halt life and then start it from the beginning. This a major finding," he said, adding that other organisms previously revived from this state had survived for decades rather than millennia.

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📸: Alexei V. Tchesunov and Anastasia Shatilovich/Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS

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