Thursday, February 23, 2012

Lazarus plant: 30,000-year-old flower resurrected from naturally frozen seeds « Why Evolution Is True


Can you imagine how old are these flowers?!! Go ahead and read this interesting and amazingly true fact which brings us to wonder about the beauty of evolution.



Not Exactly Rocket Science speaks about this amazing fact:
''Fruits in my fruit bowl tend to rot into a mulchy mess after a couple of weeks. Fruits that are chilled in permanent Siberian ice fare rather better. After more than 30,000 years, and some care from Russian scientists, some ancient fruits have produced this delicate white flower.
These regenerated plants, rising like wintry Phoenixes from the Russian ice, are still viable. They produce their own seeds and, after a 30,000-year hiatus, can continue their family line.
The plant owes its miraculous resurrection to a team of scientists led by David Gilichinsky, and an enterprising ground squirrel. Back in the Upper Pleistocene, the squirrel buried the plant’s fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze''.
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Marginalia « Why Evolution Is True

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