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Ancient animal revived after 24,000 years trapped under ice in Arctic permafrost

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creatures have been successfully revived after 24,000 years trapped in Arctic ice — and they immediately started eating and mating with one another.

Russian scientists found the bdelloid rotifers in a core of frozen soil extracted from the Siberian permafrost using a drilling rig, CNN reports.Stas Malavin, a researcher at the Soil Cryology Laboratory at the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research in Russia, said: "Our 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."Rotifers are microscopic and typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive.Earlier research by other.

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