How a 46,000-year-old worm came back to life and started having babies

Scientists thawed out a 46,000-year-old worm dating back to the Ice Age and brought it back to life, and then it started having babies.

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00:03 This all started when our Russian colleagues dug up

00:22 a bit of permafrost for their studies.

00:25 And they found that after thawing this,

00:27 some nematodes crawled out of it.

00:29 And then it's, of course, kind of a miracle.

00:31 Well, it's not a miracle, but it's

00:32 kind of a super fascinating finding to suddenly see life.

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00:39 They built this sugar, which somehow helps

00:48 them protect their DNA and proteins while they

00:50 are in this resting stage.

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00:58 The whole Earth seems to be moving

01:05 to a more extreme environment.

01:07 We can learn things that could inform us to maybe save

01:11 endangered species and think about protection measures.

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