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This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

What has one head, one foot, and one heck of an origin story?

No, it's not a strange new superhero.

It's a microscopic worm called a rotifer that was brought back to life after spending about 25,000 years locked in the Arctic permafrost.

Its tale is told in the journal Current Biology.

This is a long-term topic for our lab.

Stasma Levin of the Institute of Physiochemical and Biological Problems in Social Science

in Pushino, Russia.

He and his colleagues have spent decades probing the Siberian permafrost, and they've managed

to revive a variety of interesting organisms, from a plant seed and simple bacteria to scores

of more sophisticated single-celled critters.

We have isolated around 30 or maybe 40 strands already, or unicellular.

But for some reason, people weren't totally wowed by resurrected amoebas.

Yeah, they don't respect them.

Rotifero is much, much better.

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