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Frozen Plants Brought Back To Life 400 Years After Little Ice Age Can Grow, Reproduce
By Sarah C. P. Williams A group of plants frozen inside Teardrop Glacier in the Canadian Arctic for more than 400 years still has the ability to grow and reproduce, scientist have discovered. In 2007, researchers were collecting long-frozen plant samples from the receding edges of the glacier when they noticed some bryophytes—plants which include mosses and mosslike liverworts—sprouting new parts (as seen in the main image).
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