Andy Chandler-Grevatt
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There’s a record of them surviving frozen in a tun state for 24,000 years! Bonkers huh? 💚🔬 www.cell.com/current-biol...
A living bdelloid rotifer from 24,000-year-old Arctic permafrost
Shmakova et al. report the finding of a living bdelloid rotifer, a microscopic multicellular
animal, in a permafrost sample dated to approximately 24,000 years before the present.
Metagenomics support...
www.cell.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There’s a record of them surviving frozen in a tun state for 24,000 years! Bonkers huh? 💚🔬 www.cell.com/current-biol...
I think it’s a rotifer tun - there are the two toes visible! Thanks for sharing 💚🔬
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I think it’s a rotifer tun - there are the two toes visible! Thanks for sharing 💚🔬
This is cool - that is a hairy racer!!! I’m having a closer look at the tun…
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is cool - that is a hairy racer!!! I’m having a closer look at the tun…
Great to see it’s being read. Thanks for sharing! 🔬💚
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Great to see it’s being read. Thanks for sharing! 🔬💚
Hooray! 💚🔬#iseemoss
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hooray! 💚🔬#iseemoss
This is gorgeous. Great to get kids to notice moss 💚🔬
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is gorgeous. Great to get kids to notice moss 💚🔬