Ancient worms frozen for nearly 42,000 years have been miraculously brought back to life by Russian researcher
At the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science near Moscow, two worms have been carefully thawed out of the ice they had been in since the Pleistocene age, reports The Sun.
The roundworms, which lived alongside the giant woolly mammoths, were the only two of 300 frozen worms that researchers believed were candidates for the experiment.
One was found by the Russian Alazeya River in 2015, while the other had been found in 2002 by the Kolyma River.
With the worms wriggling back to life, researchers believe it could be a breakthrough in cryonics, a field that hopes to suspend people in time by freezing their bodies for years.
The end goal is to keep humans frozen at -196degC for centuries while interplanetary exploration occurs.
But if you want to chill out and be awakened when scientists find a new home planet, it could cost you between $54,000 and $311,000, with little to no chance of success.
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