Scientists have revived a plant buried in Siberian permafrost - This plant is 32,000 years old

Russian scientists revive 32,000 years old flower from the Pleistocene epoch - read the story : A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, has successfully revived a flowering plant from a 32,000-year-old fruit buried in Siberian permafrost. Silene stenophylla was revived after it had been ingested by an arctic ground squirrel roughly 32,000 years ago. The seeds from the herbaceous Silene stenophylla have been regenerated into full flowering plants in Russia.
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