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Back From the Dead: 400 Year Old Frozen Plants Revived [VIDEO]
As glaciers recede in the Canadian Arctic, a spices of plant buried beneath them is growing again. Scientists had long assumed that any plantlife entombed beneath a sheet of ice for 400 years would be dead, and any plant growth in the wake of the glacial retreat would be the result of new plant growth. But carbon dating of plants known as byrophytes shows that the plants have essentially come back from the dead, reawakening after as many as 600 years buried beneath the ice.
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