One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.
Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.
It is 32,000 years old.
The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.
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Agreed, shows how living things need to be resiliant to survive, what is scary is that we think bacteria and other organisms may also survive in the erma frost.
Makes you wonder what could also be lurking on Mars or the moon in this respect.
Another reason for space travel but strict rules on how we go about it too.
