A microscopic organism may be the longest living creature on earth, when it was discovered living and reproducing after lying frozen for 24,000 years in icy northeastern Siberia. This creature is bdelloid rotifer — a multicellular organism that can withstand extreme cold and is found in freshwater habitats across the world. It was discovered by …

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