This article by Erin Wayman talks about a type of moss that uncovered May 27. But this is no ordinary moss, it was preserved in an ice glacier, and is from sometime between 1550 and 1850. When scientists uncovered the moss, seven of the twenty four samples began to grow, because mosses have the ability to reset their cells, unlike other seeds or spores, and return back to their normal state, despite being in a glacier for four hundred years. Nobody knows exactly how long a moss can be frozen and then return to its normal state, but in the future mosses frozen in retreating ice glaciers may be able to add new diversity to their ecosystems.
N. O. S. Themes
Science is collaborative
Role of chance and probability
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350646/description/Mosses_frozen_in_time_come_back_to_life
This is truly amazing; that something can be frozen for hundreds of years and still come back to life. I can barely hold my breath for a minute and I think I'm dying. If anyone held their breath for even just an hour they'd be dead, but this type of moss can do it for years! I hope that this discovery can prove itself useful and possibly save lives of people who have drowned or maybe suffocated. That seems insane, but who knows maybe someone will figure it out.
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