{"id":123676,"date":"2021-06-11T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/these-tiny-creatures-were-revived-after-24000-years-frozen-in-the-siberian-permafrost"},"modified":"2021-06-11T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:23:06","slug":"these-tiny-creatures-were-revived-after-24000-years-frozen-in-the-siberian-permafrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/these-tiny-creatures-were-revived-after-24000-years-frozen-in-the-siberian-permafrost","title":{"rendered":"These Tiny Creatures Were Revived After 24,000 Years Frozen in The Siberian Permafrost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-tiny-creatures-were-revived-after-24000-years-frozen-in-the-siberian-permafrost2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For tens of thousands of years, a microscopic creature lay frozen and immobile underground in the Siberian permafrost.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when scientists thawed it out, the tiny multicellular animal didn\u2019t just revive \u2014 it reproduced, suggesting that there is a mechanism whereby multicellular animals can avoid cell damage during the freezing process and wake up ready to rumble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur report is the hardest proof as of today that multicellular animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis, the state of almost completely arrested metabolism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scimex.org\/newsfeed\/move-over-tardigrades!-rotifers-are-the-new-contender-for-the-worlds-toughest-beasties\">said biologist Stas Malavin<\/a> of the Soil Cryology Laboratory at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For tens of thousands of years, a microscopic creature lay frozen and immobile underground in the Siberian permafrost. Yet, when scientists thawed it out, the tiny multicellular animal didn\u2019t just revive \u2014 it reproduced, suggesting that there is a mechanism whereby multicellular animals can avoid cell damage during the freezing process and wake up ready [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}