Daily Mail News UK – Science
By LAUREN HAUGHEY
UPDATED: 09:27 EDT, 3 September 2023
In the 1992 blockbuster, Encino Man, two high school students discover a frozen caveman in their garden, before thawing him out and introducing him to modern life.
Now, the bizarre plot has become a reality – with a 46,000-year-old frozen worm.
In a landmark study published last month, experts managed to ‘resurrect’ a group of long extinct roundworms after thawing the ice that had imprisoned them since the era of woolly mammoths.