Frozen 24,000 year old worm comes back to life

CompilingUsername

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Tiny worm comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze

Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.
www.indiatoday.in www.indiatoday.in

After a 24k year deep sleep this worm came back to life. Probably wondering WTF was going on.

Stuff like that makes me kinda hopeful the different Mars missions can find life.
 

NotMyRealName

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Wow, this guy's even more impressive than tardigrades
 

Alexm01

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Not sure its real ......
 

calvin1719

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Can these crap "news" sites not just report, but have to resort to clickbait headlines? It wasn't dead, it didn't "come back to life".
 

t3chg33k

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CompilingUsername said:

Tiny worm comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze

Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.
www.indiatoday.in www.indiatoday.in

After a 24k year deep sleep this worm came back to life. Probably wondering WTF was going on.

Stuff like that makes me kinda hopeful the different Mars missions can find life.
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Except that it is not a worm, as correct by Reuters. Cannot expect any of the Indian news sites to keep up though.

Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com