Thread by @DrEricDing

Worse than a lab leak? ➡️A microscopic creature revived to life after 24,000 years in Arctic permafrost—“Our report is the hardest proof that animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis (state of almost complete frozen metabolism)”😳
cnn.com/2021/06/07/eur…

2) “In a new study, the Russian researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine that the critters they recovered from the permafrost -- ground that is frozen year-round, apart from a thin layer near the surface -- were about 24,000 years old.

3) “Stems of Antarctic moss were successfully regrown from a 1,000-year-old sample covered by ice for about 400 years, and a living campion flower was regenerated from seed tissue, likely stored by an Arctic squirrel, that had been preserved in 32,000-year-old permafrost.

4) “Simple worms, called nematodes, were revived from the permafrost from two places in northeastern Siberia, in sediments that were more than 30,000 years old.”

Climate change anyone? 👀

5) Meanwhile in other news today: “Carbon dioxide levels have hit a record high at 419 parts per million”

Anyone else worried about Siberian Arctic permafrost melt? 🤷🏻‍♂️

6) I feel this is a bad headline for today along with news of creatures thawed from Siberian Arctic on same day.

google.com/amp/s/thehill.…

7) “Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive. Russian scientists found the creatures in a core of frozen soil extracted from the Siberian permafrost using a drilling rig.”

Let’s not “drill baby drill” please.