Prehistoric Worm Revived After 46,000 Years — Transcript
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- 0:00scientists just revived a prehistoric worm. this one specifically. it's a nematode, it was found in
- 0:04the Siberian permafrost and it's estimated to be 46,000 years old. in other words this worm
- 0:10froze when humans were making cave paintings and it just woke up. it lived so long by slowing its
- 0:15metabolism down to extremely low levels, entering a state called cryptobiosis. but get this:
- 0:20the previous known record for a nematode to survive like that was 39 years this one was
- 0:2746,000! there's just so much we don't know about the world that's so crazy. one reason scientists
- 0:31are excited about this is that by studying cryptobiosis we might be able to learn how
- 0:35to better preserve human cells and short of that we might just be able to better understand the
- 0:39amazing animals around us. if you like optimistic science and tech stories follow for more.
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