A pair of nematodes – roundworms – are apparently alive after they were frozen in permafrost for nearly 42,000 years. Russian scientists said the two prehistoric worms, out of a group of about ...

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In 2018, Anastasia Shatilovich, a scientist from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia, thawed two female worms from a fossilized burrow dug by ...