{"id":168482,"date":"2023-07-28T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-resurrected-an-extinct-animal-frozen-for-46000-years-in-siberia"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:22:25","slug":"scientists-resurrected-an-extinct-animal-frozen-for-46000-years-in-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-resurrected-an-extinct-animal-frozen-for-46000-years-in-siberia","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Resurrected an Extinct Animal Frozen for 46,000 Years in Siberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-resurrected-an-extinct-animal-frozen-for-46000-years-in-siberia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The astonishing discovery is \u201cimportant for the understanding of evolutionary processes because generation times could be stretched from days to millennia, and long-term survival of individuals of species can lead to the refoundation of otherwise extinct lineages,\u201d according to <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosgenetics\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010798\" target=\"_blank\"> a study published on Thursday<\/a> in the journal <em>PLoS Genetics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir evolution was literally suspended for 40k years,\u201d wrote Philipp Schiffer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cologne and a co-author of the study, in an email to Motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now comparing them to species from the same genus, which my team samples around the world,\u201d he continued, noting that he is currently conducting fieldwork in the Australian Outback. \u201cStudying their genomes we hope to understand a lot about how these populations became different in the last 40k years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astonishing discovery is \u201cimportant for the understanding of evolutionary processes because generation times could be stretched from days to millennia, and long-term survival of individuals of species can lead to the refoundation of otherwise extinct lineages,\u201d according to a study published on Thursday in the journal PLoS Genetics. \u201cTheir evolution was literally suspended for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168482","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}