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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A Very Old Plant From Stone Age Brought Back to Life, From 32,000-Year-Old Seeds
32,000-Year-Old Plant
A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old.
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