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 Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits on the right bank of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, the sediments dating back 30,000-32,000 years.
Tot articolul: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russians-regenerate-flowering-plant-from-30000-year-old-frozen-burrow-of-ice-age-squirrel/2012/02/20/gIQAB1ejPR_story.html?tid=pm_pop
