2023-07-28 06:59:43
The scientific magazine ‘Scientific American’ announced the discovery of a new species of worm this Friday, relayed our colleagues from Het Laatste Nieuws.
The worm is called “Panagrolaimus kolymaensis” and was found in a piece of permafrost, permanently frozen ground, in northeastern Russia. If the animal was thawed in 2018, its age has only just been discovered.
It would appear to be a previously unknown species, which has survived longer than any other life form observed by man. The worm would have been kept in the ice for 46,000 years.
A period of hibernation enabled through a process known as “cryptobiosis”, a survival strategy of tiny animals that manages to slow down their metabolism and other biological processes until they are no longer detectable.
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