Biologists revive the worm-proof workers, which 24 thousand years ago frozen in permafrost in the east of Yakutia. The study has published a scientific journal Current Biology.
“While this is the most reliable testimony that multicellular living beings can live tens of thousands of years in a state when their metabolism stops almost completely,” the words of one of the authors of the study, the scientific officer of the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Sciences RAS Stanislav Malyavina.
Becovants – a primitive multicellular animal, which is very lively. In addition, worms can survive after long and sharp droughts, because they are “dried” – with a lack of water, substances are produced, helping to survive anabiosis and return to life after.