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A microscopic multi-celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, according to new research.
Scientists dug up the animal known as a bdelloid rotifer from the Alayeza River in the Russian Arctic.
Once thawed, it was able to reproduce asexually, after spending millennia in a state of frozen animation known as crytobiosis.
Previous research said they could survive frozen for up to 10 years.
But the new study, published in Current Biology on
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