Prehistoric Flower Alive
Call it a weird case of prehistoric nostalgia. It seems like what was once frozen and lost under the icy cold hands of time’s ticking clock resurfaces with quite an impressive force. Recently, it was a mention of a possible woolly mammoth sighting in the streams of Siberia. As it turns out, that region was not finished in its unbeknownst quest in unearthing ancient life.
Tens of thousands of years after it last saw light, a fruiting flower grows again. It has been some 30,000 years since this plant has been alive. Scientists took what may have otherwise been an ordinary bit of ice from the cold grips of the earth and revived ancient tissue found within this frozen lump. The flower has grown and can generate seeds and produce offspring and the cycle continues in what is the circle of life. The possible implications of such a scientific breakthrough can be staggering to say the least.
The philosophical analysis of emerging dormant life makes one wonder what other plant or creature that some scientists might bring back to our modern world. Say, the dodo bird, perhaps. That was a pretty fun animal. Maybe the local scientists are just thinking ahead on what to feed the newly discovered woolly mammoth. Ancient buffet, anyone?
[ images via: Port Wallpaper, The Christian Science Monitor ]
