Photo courtesy of AP Photo/HO, the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The material that created this little flower is 30,000 years old, and was rescued from extinction by an unlikely savior: a long-since-dead squirrel. During the last Ice Age, a squirrel hid fruit in its burrow, and that burrow remained locked in Siberian permafrost until Russian scientists recovered its contents. They used those contents to resurrect this Sylene stenophylla plant, making it the oldest plant to be regenerated. Not only that, but the revived plant is also fertile, as demonstrated by its flowers and its production of seeds.
Via PhysOrg
What are the chances it was hidden by this little guy?
