The worm has broken a record of being the animal to survive the longest period of time in a frozen state in recorded history. Previous research reported that the "bdelloid rotifer" has been known to survive extreme colds for a few years at a time up to a decade. "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," said Stas Malavin of Russia's Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, and one of the lead researchers. "Of course, the more complex the organism, the more complicated it is to keep it frozen and alive."What was shocking for the researchers is that even after the worm was thawed, it was still able to reproduce. Malavin states there is still a long way to go in order to understand more of these organisms.Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest, tiniest animal you’ve never heard of. https://t.co/p0OfKZR7yg pic.twitter.com/pZharBdSeA
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Worm brought back to life after 24,000 years frozen in ice
The worm has broken a record of being the animal to survive the longest period of time in a frozen state in recorded history
