Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years.

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.

The nematode was found about 130 feet deep within the permafrost inside a burrow once home to Arctic gophers. After the chunk of frozen sediment was taken to the lab to thaw, the resurrected nematode crawled out and started making babies. The nematode, a female-only species, reproduces asexually, after about eight to 12 days.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

fsm said:

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years.

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.

The nematode was found about 130 feet deep within the permafrost inside a burrow once home to Arctic gophers. After the chunk of frozen sediment was taken to the lab to thaw, the resurrected nematode crawled out and started making babies. The nematode, a female-only species, reproduces asexually, after about eight to 12 days.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

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dv said:

fsm said:

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years.

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.

The nematode was found about 130 feet deep within the permafrost inside a burrow once home to Arctic gophers. After the chunk of frozen sediment was taken to the lab to thaw, the resurrected nematode crawled out and started making babies. The nematode, a female-only species, reproduces asexually, after about eight to 12 days.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

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yeah, let the ancient death worm reanimate and cause havoc.. what the hell…

Arts said:

dv said:

fsm said:

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years.

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.

The nematode was found about 130 feet deep within the permafrost inside a burrow once home to Arctic gophers. After the chunk of frozen sediment was taken to the lab to thaw, the resurrected nematode crawled out and started making babies. The nematode, a female-only species, reproduces asexually, after about eight to 12 days.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

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yeah, let the ancient death worm reanimate and cause havoc.. what the hell…

I’m glad we see eye to eye.

If they’re going to start waking up creatures that have been asleep for millenia, then Tokyo is no place to be:

captain_spalding said:

If they’re going to start waking up creatures that have been asleep for millenia, then Tokyo is no place to be:

I’m thinking baby woolly mammoth or something like that

dv said:

Arts said:

dv said:

fsm said:

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years.

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth.

The nematode was found about 130 feet deep within the permafrost inside a burrow once home to Arctic gophers. After the chunk of frozen sediment was taken to the lab to thaw, the resurrected nematode crawled out and started making babies. The nematode, a female-only species, reproduces asexually, after about eight to 12 days.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

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yeah, let the ancient death worm reanimate and cause havoc.. what the hell…

I’m glad we see eye to eye.

But do we really, as you may remember, roundworms are almost ready to be a diabetes cure, and if you fix them chronic diseases then it’ll be difficult for BigPharma to profit even if it means people can now eat lots of carbohydrates so that BigFarmer will profit¡¿

SCIENCE said:

dv said:

Arts said:

yeah, let the ancient death worm reanimate and cause havoc.. what the hell…

I’m glad we see eye to eye.

But do we really, as you may remember, roundworms are almost ready to be a diabetes cure, and if you fix them chronic diseases then it’ll be difficult for BigPharma to profit even if it means people can now eat lots of carbohydrates so that BigFarmer will profit¡¿

I see that there may be a point of contention between you both.

The advantages of a female-only species.
Sex only makes survival worse ;-)

Great discovery. But they need to confirm it using DNA sequencing, it may have crawled in there later.
Just because it’s “called” permafrost doesn’t necessarily imply that it is.

mollwollfumble said:

The advantages of a female-only species.
Sex only makes survival worse ;-)

Great discovery. But they need to confirm it using DNA sequencing, it may have crawled in there later.
Just because it’s “called” permafrost doesn’t necessarily imply that it is.

Let it go