To: JoeProBono; BenLurkin; Salamander; SunkenCiv
Researchers have successfully revived microscopic creatures that had been kept frozen for 30 years.
Scientists at at Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research retrieved the creatures from a frozen moss sample collected in Antarctica in 1983. The sample had been stored at -20 C for just over three decades.
The previous survival record for adult tardigrades under frozen conditions was eight years, and a much earlier study had suggested that the upper limit for survival under normal atmospheric oxygen conditions was about 10 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12102714/Animal-brought-back-to-life-after-spending-30-years-frozen.html
47 posted on
01/16/2016 12:10:32 PM PST by
AdmSmith
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48 posted on
01/16/2016 12:36:33 PM PST by
JoeProBono
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Figures, the Tardigrave is that time travel box Dr Who uses... wait, what?
49 posted on
01/16/2016 1:12:47 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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