They Found Worms in 40-Year-Old Canned Salmon—But It’s Great News! Story by Melissa Ait Lounis ... the scientists were interested in a particular type of marine worm called anisakids.

Worms frozen for 40,000 years were just brought back to life. By Mike Wehner. Published Jul 27th, 2018 11:29AM EDT. ... estimate the worms to be around 32,000 and 42,000 years old, ...

As an enthusiastic if inept gardener, I recently had a big section of my driveway jack-hammered up, so I could increase my vegetable output.

The worms are obviously very old, coming from the Pleistocene era, which spanned from approximately 2.6 million years ago to just 12,000 years ago.

And it also varied how many worms that we would find. Some of them had just one. There was one can that we opened that had 115 worms, but that was definitely an anomaly. Most of them, it was under 10.

In complementary work, Monica Driscoll of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., and her coworkers found that worm muscle fibers lose their organized appearance as worms age (SN: 10/26/02, p. 260 ...

A tiny worm that barely lives more than a week under normal conditions may hold clues that could help keep us stronger and healthier until old age finally catches up with us, researchers say.

Researchers have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago which were below the surface in the Siberian permafrost ... How reviving 46,000-year-old frozen worms could teach us about climate ...