{"id":269795,"date":"2021-06-09T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worms-brought-back-to-life\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:57:44","slug":"24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worms-brought-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worms-brought-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life<\/strong>”
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This might make you squirm.<\/p>\n

Russian scientists have resurrected \u201czombie\u201d worms that had been frozen for 24,000 years in the Arctic.<\/p>\n

The microscopic, multicellular animals \u2014 called bdelloid rotifers \u2014 have inhabited freshwater environments for some 50 million years. Other studies on rotifers have shown that the animals can be revived after 10 years on ice, but a new study published in the journal Current Biology on Monday<\/a> confirms that these clever creatures have the potential to live on for millions of more years. <\/p>\n

The specimens \u2014 sometimes called wheel animals for their round, gaping mouths \u2014 were dug up from Siberian permafrost that app<\/a>eared during the latter part of the Pleistocene epoch, which ended about 11,700 years ago. <\/p>\n

Researchers have also noted that the recently thawed animals, which reproduce asexually, had no trouble cloning themselves once they were brought back to life.<\/p>\n

A report by Live Science<\/a> has noted that these \u201czombie\u201d rotifers aren\u2019t the first once-frozen creatures that scientists have thawed and brought back to life. For instance, nematodes \u2014 another worm-like species \u2014 have been regenerated after as many as 42,000 years<\/a> locked in permafrost. Ancient plants have also been recovered and cultivated in labs. <\/p>\n

The seemingly impossible is possible for some species on Earth thanks to cryptobiosis. Stas Malavin, a researcher at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science<\/a> in the Russian town of Pushchino, told Live Science<\/a> that these animals can \u201csuspend their metabolism and accumulate certain compounds like chaperone proteins that help them to recover from cryptobiosis when the conditions improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of resuscitation is simple. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe put a piece of permafrost into a Petri dish filled with [a] suitable medium and wait until organisms that are alive recover from their dormancy, start moving and multiply,\u201d Malavin said.<\/p>\n

While the finding is critical to cryobiology \u2014 that is, the study of how organisms live at extremely low temperatures \u2014 Malavin points out that we\u2019re a long way from being able to do it as humans. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe more complex the organism, the trickier it is to preserve it alive frozen,\u201d he assured Live Science readers. \u201cFor mammals, it\u2019s not currently possible.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life” This might make you squirm. Russian scientists have resurrected \u201czombie\u201d worms that had been frozen for 24,000 years in the Arctic. The microscopic, multicellular animals \u2014 called bdelloid rotifers \u2014 have inhabited freshwater environments for some 50 million years. Other studies on rotifers have shown that the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/permafrost-worms.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[108651,72347,70781,4975,79074],"class_list":["post-269795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-8-21","tag-arctic","tag-biology","tag-russia","tag-worms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}