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A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

www.businessinsider.com A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged to a previously-unidentified species.

A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

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A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

www.businessinsider.com /forty-six-thousand-year-old-worm-found-siberian-permafrost-brought-back-to-life-2023-7

A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

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A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

www.businessinsider.com /forty-six-thousand-year-old-worm-found-siberian-permafrost-brought-back-to-life-2023-7

A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

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I am not sure about this.
- Do you think it’s false, or do you not know how you feel about it?
  
  I think he means it might be benign or it might be the end of the world
  
  How about it’s neither but ends up being an invasive species that eats primarily a genetic modified crop that was valuable for its resistance to flood and thunderstorms?
  
  What two wonderful choices those are lol My brain didn’t immediately think of the bad. I naively only went to the fascinating spectrum, but now I can see how the introduction of this to our modern ecology could be severely detrimental.

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