Real Life Resurrections: Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

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Real Life Resurrections: Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life
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Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost are alive and eating well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later. 🧐

Surprisingly, though, some of these ancient discoveries could actually Dr. George Church is using thousands of years old DNA extracted from frozen mammoth carcasses in Siberia to attempt to"resurrect" the creatures. Using CRISPR DNA-editing technology, Church and his team have proposed introducing select mammoth DNA sequences into modern-day Asian elephants, creating a type of"mammophant" hybrid.

provide potentially valuable insight into evolution for different climate conditions, which could help researchers to aid wildlife threatened by climate change.It could also help ecosystems adapt to climate change. The tundra ecosystem that arose after the extinction of large grazing species like the woolly mammoth is now affected by and contributing to climate change.

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