Wild Flower Blooms After 30,000 Years On Ice

At first site, it looks just like any other plant.

But, it really isn't.

Actually, the news was brought to light last week. This solitary wild flower, with its small green leaves and just five white petals has reportedly been resurrected by a team of scientists who tapped a treasure trove of fruits and seeds, buried some 30,000 years ago by ground squirrels and preserved in the permafrost.

The squirrels’ burrows, 70 in all, were found on the banks of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, 20–40 metres below the current surface of the tundra and surrounded by the bones of mammoths and other creatures. Some burrows contained hundreds of thousands of fruits and seeds, wonderfully preserved by the cold, dry environment.

No doubt, a major step to mankind on discovering flora back on the time of permafrost. from here