Oh wow guys I need to tell you something amazing! So one of my collegues at my old university just reported that they found 300 frozen roundworms in the permafrost in the Kolima region of Russia, they unfroze them and… 2 of them were alive and started feeding!!! One of them is 41700 years old, the other is 32000 years old.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? My mind is blown.

Source (in Russian, sorry).

Frozen earthworm revived after 42,000 years in the permafrost

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Siberian roundworms frozen for millennia were thawed and are happily going about their business again, reports The Siberian Times.

https://boingboing.net/2018/07/27/frozen-earthworm-revived-after.html

WELCOME…. TO MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE PARK

the park we deserve tbh

very old worms