Image shows the Panagrolaimus kolymaensis nematode, undated photo. It was discovered by researchers from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia in the Siberian Permafrost. (Alexei V. Tchesunov and Anastasia Shatilovich, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS/Newsflash)
Scientists Revive Ice Age Roundworm
Scientists in Germany have reanimated a roundworm from the Siberian permafrost that had laid dormant for nearly 50,000 years. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Saxony State, thawed…