46,000-year-old ‘living’ parasite discovered in ice, ‘like the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty’
Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old parasite, previously thought to be extinct, that has been “living” in the Siberian permafrost. Detailed in a study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists found through carbon analysis that the microscopic nematodes, better known as roundworms, dated back to the late Pleistocene era. “This little worm could now be in line … Read more