Best Nap Ever: Rotifers Wake Up After 24,000 Years

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Tiny creatures called rotifers seem to have no problem continuing their lives after waking from a refreshing 24,000-year nap. And DNA samples from goats that lived 30,000 years ago tell us a bit about how humans were managing them back then.

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Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2021-06/cp-arl060221.php
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00624-2
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/mammoths
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Images:
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/266742.php?from=505163
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/an-image-of-a-growing-rotifers-in-a-horizontal-view-gm116828387-6009634
https://www.flickr.com/photos/41585865@N06/8434155572
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/266744.php?from=505163
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ice-under-permafrost-soil-in-spitzbergen-gm184936479-18615248
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rotifer_animation.gif
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/strongyloides-stercoralis-gm640940844-116015921
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/115390032
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/goat-gm855970482-140943771
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/goats-going-on-a-pasture-land-rtcyb6yslixi7ylwq
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zagros-mountains-gm535220029-57063566
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bezoar-ibex-gm618051010-107444347
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/alpine-ibex-or-capra-ibex-gran-paradiso-national-park-aosta-va-gm1315067889-403135238
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/goat-heard-on-meadow-sivu7xkiwj831tois
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mixed-race-woman-enjoying-morning-gm1149534440-310837861
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/rotifer-gm479379639-36252360
https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/baby-goats-fighting-in-farm-zoo-blzaogf5irz5suk4