The frozen nematode survived the thawing of 42,000 years ago.
It has been reported that the living creatures that have lived 42,000 years ago are recovering from the reality.
Two other nematodes that have been frozen for tens of thousands of years have survived, reports Fox News,
The nematocyst is a multicellular organism with a simple shape with a length of about 1 mm. The researchers unearthed and thawed more than 300 frozen nematodes in the permafrost of Siberia, and succeeded in reviving two of them. Although it is a simple multi-celled creature, it is as if a "frozen human" appeared in a novel or movie.
According to the researchers, one of them was found in the ground near the Allajaya River in 2015, and it was estimated that it was about 41,700 years ago when mammoths played. The other one was found near the Colima River in 2002 and was estimated to be about 32,000 years ago.
The results of this study have two major implications. One is that it is a living research material that can tell the characteristics and ecology of the nematode that lived in the Pleistocene, and the other is that it can be a breakthrough in the technology of reviving after a long period of cryopreservation as in the movie.
"After successful thawing in the laboratory, the two nematodes have moved back and have seen life-feeding activity," he said, adding that "it will be an important aid to science, such as long-term cryopreservation, low-temperature biology, and space biology."
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