Yet ANOTHER cool SCIENCE news item. 32,000 year old FLOWER

[Liability]

Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: February 20, 2012

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.

OLD DNA A plant has been generated from the fruit of the narrow-leafed campion. It is the oldest plant by far to be grown from ancient tissue.

This would be the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue.
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-- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/s...flower-that-died-32000-years-ago.html?_r=1&hp

 

[Mr. H.]

If they could revive that ground squirrel- now that would be a story.

 

[Liability]

If they could revive that ground squirrel- now that would be a story.

Or at least his nuts.

 

[FuelRod]

That had to be one big vase.