view from the thirteenth floor

20 February 2012

ancient flora

"Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago."
this is great --- thnx, jon
tomitron at 2/20/2012 06:07:00 PM

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