Sunday, July 10, 2022

24,000-Year-Old "Zombies" Revived From Deep-Freeze

 

Arctic ice dating to 24,000 years ago held frozen microscopic animals called rotifers, and scientists just brought them back to life! Cryptobiosis is a survival strategy that appears specifically suited to the permafrost environment below the surface in Siberia's Alazeya River, where these rotifers were found. To learn more about the discover, read this → https://www.livescience.com/rotifer-f... Science News • Videos • Explainers SUBSCRIBE to the Live Science YouTube channel → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOTA... Twitter→ https://twitter.com/LiveScience Facebook→ https://www.facebook.com/livescience Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/live_science/ Community Forums→ https://forums.livescience.com/ For the science geek in everyone, LiveScience.com breaks down the stories behind the most interesting news and photos on the Internet, while also digging up fascinating discoveries that hit on a broad range of fields, from dinosaurs and archaeology to wacky physics and astronomy to health and human history. If you want to learn something interesting every day, #LiveScience is the place for you. #Rotifers #ZombieAnimals

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