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Russian scientists from the Soil Criology Laboratory at the Pustino Center for Biological Research

recently pulled an animal out of the Siberian permafrost that was still alive after 24,000

years.

For those of you not in the know, Soil Criology is the study of very cold dirt and permafrost

is any patch of ground that stays completely frozen for more than two years straight.

So Siberia is a good place to study sub-zero soil and the things that come out of it when

it starts to thaw.

Now, before you get excited about a blind woolly mammoth staggering around like Han Solo,

after being thawed out of carbonite, what came out of the permafrost was a much, much

smaller animal, the Deleuid Rodefer.

Rodefer's are microscopic filter feeders that you can find in almost every body of water

on Earth from the Pacific Ocean down to your backyard bird bath.

This particular species is the Deleuid Rodefer.

They're only hearing me say Deleuid, but that name is spelled B-D-E-L-L-O-I-D from the

ancient Greek word for leech, which is what these guys are shaped like.

Or I should say what these gals are shaped like.

There are actually no males of the species.

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