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A kind of nematode, an elongated creature unearthed from the permafrost of Siberia, Russia, thawed out of its frozen state after which reanimated, researchers say – the longest interval of dormancy for an organism, over 40,000 years. , It is analyzed that it might have survived in a dormant state.