Time travel has been mastered by a tiny worm which was reawakened after being frozen for an estimated 46,000 years.Believed to have lived in the late Pleistocene, the time of the woolly mammoths, a small group of worms removed from Siberian permafrost were thawed out and came 'back to life'.The worms, from a long-extinct species called Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, were not in fact dead, but in a dormant state called cryptobiosis, in which they shut down until their bodily processes were undetectable.
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