God has designed some creatures with an amazing ability to stop or slow down their metabolism (life processes) when encountering challenging conditions.
This state of suspended metabolism is called cryptobiosis, and it has made the news with a discovery of nematodes (worms) in the Siberian permafrost. “When Anastasia Shatilovich at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia revive… More…
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