24,000-year-old frozen ‘zombie worm’ thawed by scientists — then it shockingly started reproducing (nypost.com)

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[-] 474D@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

PUT IT BACK

[-] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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 15 points 1 month ago

[-] Lirton@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

I hope that they have flamethrowers just in case of emergency...

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Kennedy jerkin off somewhere

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Good for the worm

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I swear the thing that ends up killing us all is some obscure bio specimen they pull from the thawing permafrost.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Welp. goodbye everyone. it's been ~~good~~ uh... it's been.

[-] passenger@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Shockingly?

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