While the great pyramids were being erected, they slumbered. The Roman Empire came and went, and they carried on napping. In fact, they slept through all recorded human history. They’re a group of ...

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Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

Ice worms spend most of the day burrowing their way through the cold, dark interior of the glacier, coming to the surface only in the afternoon to feed on algae and bacteria. Scott Hotaling Wander ...

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Researchers revived 46,000-year-old worms found in the Siberian permafrost, according to a new study. Photo from the journal PLOS Genetics While the great pyramids were being erected, they slumbered.