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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:00 pm Post subject: Frozen Underground for 1,500 Years, a Moss Comes Back to Li |
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Scientists have an awesome word for things that look like they're dead but aren't really dead: cryptobiosis. Crypto for hidden, and biosis for life. Lots of organisms can do this. Scientists have previously revived microbes stuck in permafrost for tens of thousands of years. But for multicellular organisms like plants and animals, the record for suspended animation has been a decade or two at most. A new study shatters that record.
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