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Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow
AP ^
| 2/20/12
| VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Posted on 02/20/2012 8:05:56 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: 30000yearoldflower; burrow; catastrophism; flower; glaciation; godsgravesglyphs; iceage; russia; siberia; silenestenophylla; squirrel
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To: SunkenCiv; LibWhacker
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posted on
02/20/2012 11:01:09 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: BIGLOOK
Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears.
To: BIGLOOK
Pretty close. That's the first thing I thought when I saw it... It's Simbelmyne!
To: Dryman
The Andromeda strain has always been here. It's a genetic pathogen called liberalism.
Scientists refuse to release how it genetically alters the brain.
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02/20/2012 11:52:04 PM PST
by
MaxMax
To: LibWhacker
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.
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posted on
02/21/2012 12:24:24 AM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: LibWhacker
Makes me wonder if there is enough DNA samples to revive the passenger pigeon.
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:34:25 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: fella
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:47:33 AM PST
by
marsh2
To: LibWhacker
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.
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posted on
02/21/2012 3:36:41 AM PST
by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: Moltke
NGAAAAAAAAAK!!! Just bury me in the permafrost please, somebody. That there just kilt me.
To: LibWhacker; null and void
But can you smoke it?............
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:36:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: WXRGina
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:37:45 AM PST
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Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: LibWhacker
Sorry about that, chief.
But ‘ancient life forms’ were mentioned...you should’ve expected no less.
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02/21/2012 7:26:48 AM PST
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Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: Little Bill
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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02/21/2012 8:31:33 AM PST
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To: LibWhacker
1. What could possibly go wrong?
2. How was I supposed to know?
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02/21/2012 8:37:18 AM PST
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don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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02/21/2012 6:12:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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02/21/2012 6:18:22 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Been pondering this for a while. Thirty millenia and surviving annual....brings up the notion of site contamination to me.
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02/21/2012 6:27:50 PM PST
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BIGLOOK
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