The latest findings could be a landmark in research of ancient biological material and the bid to potentially revive other species, including some that are extinct. The scientists highlight the importance of permafrost itself in the "search of an...

The narrow-leafed campion's fruit was buried deep in an ancient arctic squirrel burrow in northern Siberia, the New York Times reports. The team, led by Svetlana Yashina and David Gilichinsky of the Russian Academy of Sciences, excavated the burrow and...

But the seeds, when later dated by the radiocarbon method, turned out to be modern contaminants. Despite this unpromising background, the new claim is supported by a firm radiocarbon date. The report is by a team led by Svetlana Yashina and David...

Canadian researchers had earlier regenerated some significantly younger plants from seeds found in burrows. Svetlana Yashina of the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy Of Sciences, who led the regeneration effort, said the revived plant...

China. Another group of researchers germinated a 2,000-year-old palm date seed from Israel in 2005, the oldest germinating seed known to date. In the current study, published online Monday (Feb. 20) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...

The scientists generated beautiful new plants from the narrow-leafed campion, an ancient arctic fruit buried hundreds of feet below the Siberian tundra for over tens of thousands of years. This amazing discovery could open the door for thousands of...