Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow

AP ^ | 2/20/12 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

[LibWhacker]

MOSCOW (AP) -- It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species.

The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

The experiment proves that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, said the Russian researchers, who published their findings in Tuesday's issue of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" of the United States.

[BIGLOOK]

[LibWhacker]

Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears.

[LibWhacker]

Pretty close. That's the first thing I thought when I saw it... It's Simbelmyne!

[MaxMax]

The Andromeda strain has always been here. It's a genetic pathogen called liberalism.

Scientists refuse to release how it genetically alters the brain.

[BIGLOOK]

That's the species that was written up in the article. But what boggles my mind is why squirrels would stash it away for food.

Must have been a female squirrel.

[fella]

Makes me wonder if there is enough DNA samples to revive the passenger pigeon.

[marsh2]

Looks like a phlox

[Moltke]

The experiment proves that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, said the Russian researchers

They've been experimenting in secret for a long time.

[LibWhacker]

NGAAAAAAAAAK!!! Just bury me in the permafrost please, somebody. That there just kilt me.

[Red Badger]

But can you smoke it?............

[Red Badger]

They asked HT...........

[Moltke]

Sorry about that, chief.

But ‘ancient life forms’ were mentioned...you should’ve expected no less.

[OldNavyVet]

I’ve read most of Solzhenitzyn’s books and remember his graphical description of “talking” his way out of prison (on a chalkboard during his interview) into some government laboratory operation. And yes, he did study math, and it probably helped in his chalkboard presentation ... turning him into a civil servant.

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1. What could possibly go wrong?

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[BrandtMichaels]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BIGLOOK and Pollster1 for the pings here and elsewhere, and thanks Outlaw Woman and carenot for the links in FReepmail.

• Flowers regenerated from 30,000-year-old frozen fruits, buried by ancient squirrels

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[BIGLOOK]

Been pondering this for a while. Thirty millenia and surviving annual....brings up the notion of site contamination to me.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Garden Ping?