Russian scientists resurrect a 30,000 year old flower.

Found the seeds frozen in a squirrel's den dating back to the ice age. They planted them, and voila....flowers.


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Thanks, little guy.

 

Was this species extinct already?
Or is it just the very old seed of a plant that still exists?

 

I'm all for cloning and restoring stuff we still have or recently had in the last century or so. Seeds though are more easily preserved than animal tissue or DNA so moving on to cloning something as old as a Mammoth (which I oppose) is a bigger and far more complex step up.

 

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Is pleased with this news.

 

Does it really count as "resurrecting" them, though?

 

I wonder if they can resurrect silphium...

 

*sigh*

There is nothing wrong with cloning a mammoth.