Cylinsier@beehaw.orgtoScience@beehaw.org•Scientists woke up a 46,000-year-old roundworm from Siberian permafrostEnglish
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1 year agoBy sequencing the genome of this Rip Van Winkle roundworm, scientists revealed it to be a new species of nematode
If this nematode could read I bet it would be offended at being called “new.”
It’s honestly insanely impressive that these things are still working so long after being built and so far from us. One of mankind’s greatest achievements and even after they die they’ll still be out there somewhere floating around. Maybe long after we’re gone and the Earth is swallowed up by the sun. The last piece of proof that we even existed at all.