24,000-year-old frozen ‘zombie worm’ thawed by scientists — then it shockingly started reproducing
https://nypost.com/2026/04/25/science/24000-year-old-frozen-zombie-worm-thawed-by-scientists-then-it-shockingly-started-reproducing/
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474D@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 131d
PUT IT BACK
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
better to study it since the planet is heating up. we need to know how to kill it when the billions of others thaw out.
JackiesFridge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
Have you SEEN what’s going on in the world?
Dunno about you, but I’m Team Worm all the way
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 131d
Lirton@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 131d
I hope that they have flamethrowers just in case of emergency...
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 131d
Better check the dog.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
The Thing (1982)
Lirton@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 131d
Is it some reference?
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 131d
I thing so.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 131d
Gettim! They're infected!
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 131d
Kennedy jerkin off somewhere
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 130d
I swear the thing that ends up killing us all is some obscure bio specimen they pull from the thawing permafrost.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 131d
Good for the worm
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 130d
Welp. goodbye everyone. it's been
gooduh... it's been.watson387@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 131d
Shockingly?
janus2@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 131d
as someone who has collected water samples of thriving cells and failed to get them to reliably reproduce in laboratory conditions optimized for cell growth
I am shocked that the ancient frozen worm is reproducing
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 130d
Nypost, yeah, I'll wait until I see it in a real magazine. If you didn't know, nypost cannot be trusted with any subject, they just make up things and are blatantly evil in general