A living bdelloid rotifer from 24,000-year-old Arctic permafrost

2021/06/01 by Lyubov Shmakova, Stas Malavin, Nataliia Iakovenko +6 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Polar Research and Ecology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.077

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Discussions

• Recently, Russian scientists thawed out #rotifers from 24000 year old permafrost. They revived and immediately started reproducing themselves. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.077 #science [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]