A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies (www.businessinsider.com)

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Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged to a previously-unidentified species.

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[-] artistan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wondering the consequences of reviving a 5000 year old worm species. I would imagine this would never make it back to the wild.

[-] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

46,000 year old it says

[-] artistan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Whoops, teaches me to read better. Better finish my coffee…

[-] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was 50-50 between mistake and that you might have been going with "the earth is only 5000 years old" 😄

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