Bdelloid rotifer survives 24,000 years frozen in russia
Bdelloid rotifer survives 24,000 years frozen in RUSSIA
B DELLOID ROTIFERS IS A MULTICELLULAR ORGANISM THAT IS FOUND EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD IN WATER BODIES LAKES, PONDS, ETC.,
IS CONSIDER TO BE AN ANIMAL AND PLACED IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
IN RUSSIA THEY FOUND THIS ROTIFER IN A FROZEN STATE AND THAT CAME ALIVE
AFTER CARBON DATING ALL SCIENTISTS WHERE ASTONISHED IT' AGE MUST BE BETWEEN 23,960 and 24,485 years.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH SAYS THAT THEY CAN LIVE UP TO TEN YEARS.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS THE BDELLOID ROTIFERS SPECIMEN BEFORE 24,000 YEARS CAN REPRODUCE ASEXUALLY.
THEY SURVIVED THIS MANY YEARS BY A PROCESS CALLED CRYPTOBIOSIS.
NOW THE SCIENTISTS CANT CONCLUDE HOW MANY THOUSAND YEARS COULD THEY LIVE IN A FROZEN STATE.
THEY ARE ALSO CONSIDER TO BE ONE OF THE MOST RADIOACTIVE RESISTANT ORGANISMS ON EARTH.
THE NAME ROTIFERS CAME FROM LTHIN WORD MEANING 'WHEEL BEAR'(Bdelloid rotifer)
THIS ANIMAL CAN SURVIVE IN THE MOST EXTREME CONDITIONS.
LOW OXYGEN
HIGH ACIDIC MEDIUM
NOT ONLY DID THIS ORGANISM COME BACK WITH LIFE AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS
THERE ARE OTHER ORGANISMS TO LET US SEE THEM ONE BY ONE
ROSE OF JERICHO(IT IS A PLANT ),
NEMATODE WORM.
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Bdelloid rotifer
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