32,000-Year-Old Fruits Revived from a Siberian Squirrel's Frozen Burrow in 2012

Thirty-eight meters beneath the frozen surface of eastern Siberia, a ground squirrel burrow yielded in 2012 one of the Pleistocene’s best-kept secrets. Inside, immature fruits of Silene stenophylla, a small white-flowered plant in the carnation family, had slept for 31,800 years (with a margin of 300 years) according to radiocarbon dating performed by accelerator mass ... Read more The post 32,000-Year-Old Fruits Revived from a Siberian Squirrel’s Frozen Burrow in 2012 appeared first on Space Group.