Video released by the laboratory captured the wriggling movements of the tiny microorganism as it reemerged from its frozen state. (Soil Cryology Laboratory) The bdelloid rotifer is awake - and we're going to need to buy some more birthday candles. For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism has been snoozing in Siberian permafrost, having become frozen in the Arctic ice right around the same time in history that humans first ventured into North America during the Upper Paleolithi
The bdelloid rotifer, a multicellular organism, is known to be able to withstand extreme cold.
Moscow:
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.
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.
The bdelloid rotifer, a multicellular organism found in freshwater habitats across the world, is known to be able to withstand extreme cold.
Previous research suggested it could survive for a decade when frozen at -20 degrees Celsius.
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.
: Wednesday, June 9, 2021, 5:26 PM IST Was it waiting for COVID-19? : Worm comes back to life after 24,000 years in deep freeze, Twitterati respond hilariously
Photo: Unsplash/@jxb511
After lying frozen for 24,000 years in the permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia, a worm has come back to life and reproduced asexually.
According to this Reuters report, this tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer was found by scientists in the soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia s Yakutia region.
This multicellular organism is found in freshwater habitats across the world. It has the ability to withstand extreme cold. Previous research suggests that it could survive for a decade when frozen at -20 degrees Celsius.