"Frozen Underground for 1,500 Years, a Moss Comes..." Topic

…Back to Life.

"Scientists have an awesome word for things that look like they're dead but aren't really dead: cryptobiosis. Crypto for hidden, and biosis for life. Lots of organisms can do this. Scientists have previously revived microbes stuck in permafrost for tens of thousands of years. But for multicellular organisms like plants and animals, the record for suspended animation has been a decade or two at most.

A new study shatters that record.

A team of British researchers drilled core samples from moss beds on Signy Island, off Antarctica, and took slices from different depths back to the lab. Then they warmed up the samples in an incubator and exposed them to light to see if they could get anything to grow. They weren't optimistic. The deepest layers from their Antarctic cores were more than 1,500 years old.

And the record for getting frozen plant material to start growing again was no more than 20 years. (Among animals it's even shorter: Brine shrimp, aka Sea Monkeys, can be rejuvenated after a couple years in dry, freezing conditions; tardigrades, bizarre little eight-legged, water-dwelling creatures, can be revived after as much as a decade.)…"
Full article here.
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Amicalement
Armand

Be careful some things under the permafrost are just sleeping it's best not to wake them……..

What could possibly go wrong?

Did you hear that scratching noise, outside the shelter, in the dark?

Perhaps someone should go investigate, since it might be a piece of loose equipment, fluttering in the cold, Antarctic winds.

"Tekeli-li!"

Good God man, you have doomed us all…

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

Cthulmoss!