For decades, SETI Institute scientists have turned to Earth’s most extreme environments to understand how life persists at the edge of what biology allows. Now, scientists have revived microscopic worms frozen in Siberian permafrost for roughly 46,000 years, revealing how life can survive extreme cold through a state of cryptobiosis. Simon Steel spoke with evolutionary biologist Philipp Schiffer about the discovery.
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