Living organisms need an energy source, water, and a reasonably stable environment in order to survive. Most lifeforms are ...

Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic ...

A recent paper on a roundworm that survived 46,000 years frozen in ice, has renewed interest in the field of cryptobiosis that has the potential to change the galaxy writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. In his ...

In news that’s a lot less sinister than it sounds, but no less exciting, Russian scientists have revived and cloned 24,000-year-old zombies. For this experiment, the scientists went to Siberia and ...

Permafrost melts into the Kolyma River outside of Zyryanka, Russia, in 2019. The worms in the new study seem to have survived buried deep in the permafrost for tens of thousands of years. Michael ...

The nematode species under investigation was identified as Panagrolaimus Kolymaensis, named after the Kolyma River region where it was unearthed. The research team used genome sequencing, assembly, ...

Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old parasite, previously thought to be extinct, that has been “living” in the Siberian permafrost. Detailed in a study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists ...

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, ...