{"id":235935,"date":"2026-04-25T22:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worm-thawed-by-scientists-then-it-shockingly-started-reproducing"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:20:28","slug":"24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worm-thawed-by-scientists-then-it-shockingly-started-reproducing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worm-thawed-by-scientists-then-it-shockingly-started-reproducing","title":{"rendered":"24,000-year-old Frozen \u2018Zombie Worm\u2019 Thawed by Scientists \u2014 Then it Shockingly Started Reproducing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worm-thawed-by-scientists-then-it-shockingly-started-reproducing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It thawed out \u2014 and then it multiplied.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists successfully revived a \u201czombie worm\u201d that had been frozen for 24,000 years, revealing new insight into how life survives in the most unforgiving environments over extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study published in the scientific journal Current Biology, researchers found that the microscopic organism \u2014 identified as a rotifer \u2014 is a small, multicellular animal commonly found in freshwater environments that is known for its unusual durability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/scientists-revive-ancient-24000-year-old-zombie-worm-from-arctic-ice-reproduced\">FOX News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It thawed out \u2014 and then it multiplied. Scientists successfully revived a \u201czombie worm\u201d that had been frozen for 24,000 years, revealing new insight into how life survives in the most unforgiving environments over extended periods of time. According to a study published in the scientific journal Current Biology, researchers found that the microscopic organism [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235935","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}