A microscopic multi-celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, according to new research.
Once thawed, it was able to reproduce asexually, after spending millennia in a state of frozen animation known as crytobiosis.
But the new study, published in Current Biology on Monday, suggested they could last for thousands of years, if not indefinitely.
“The takeaway is that a multicellular organism can be frozen and stored as such for thousands of years and then return back to life - a dream of many fiction writers,” Stas Malavin, of Russia’s Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, told the Press Association.
They are one of the Earth’s most radioactive-resistant animals, according to the New York Times, which reports they can also withstand low oxygen, starvation, high acidity and years of dehydration.
There are reports of other multi-celled organisms coming back to life after thousands of years, including a nematode worm, as well as some plants and mosses.
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A microscopic multi-celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, according to new research.
Once thawed, it was able to reproduce asexually, after spending millennia in a state of frozen animation known as crytobiosis.
But the new study, published in Current Biology on Monday, suggested they could last for thousands of years, if not indefinitely.
“The takeaway is that a multicellular organism can be frozen and stored as such for thousands of years and then return back to life - a dream of many fiction writers,” Stas Malavin, of Russia’s Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, told the Press Association.
They are one of the Earth’s most radioactive-resistant animals, according to the New York Times, which reports they can also withstand low oxygen, starvation, high acidity and years of dehydration.
There are reports of other multi-celled organisms coming back to life after thousands of years, including a nematode worm, as well as some plants and mosses.
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