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Ancient Moss Lives!

  • June 18, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Researchers thawed out samples of frozen 1,500-year-old moss from Antarctica… and after a few weeks, the moss started to grow! The British study is the first to show that plants can survive ice-age conditions over much longer time periods than previously thought.

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