Researchers have already doubled the lifespan of mice and flies after defrosting Bacillus F frozen since the ice age.
The bacteria also made the flies fitter and healthier, more active and increased their muscle activity.
Russian scientists carrying out tests in ice near Mount Mamontova in the northern region of Yakutia discovered and extracted the bacteria.
It was then injected into mice, while food treated with the extract was given to fruit flies.
Anatolia Brushkova, who headed the investigation at Russia's Institute of Chemical Biology in Novosibirsk, said: 'It is still early days, but if it works for mice and flies there is no reason why it could not work for other animals too.'
Institute spokesman Nadezhda Mironova added: 'We had a control group of mice for which the average life expectancy was 589 days.
'After the introduction of the bacteria extract injected into the muscles this was extended by an average 308 days, whereas the control group continued to die about a year earlier.'
Some of the mice and flies lived for more than 900 days, he added.
The scientists believe the same treatment could prolong human lives to between 100 and 140 years.
Mr Brushkova added: 'What we want to look at is how we can work out a way of eventually testing the bacteria as a drug.'
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