Thanks to the borrowing nature of squirrels and their nack for hiding treasures, scientists have been able reconstruct a 30,000 years old flower. According to the online article written by Valdimir Isachenkov for the Associated Press, Svetlana Yashina of the Institure of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences used the hidden contents of a squirrel den found 125 feet below the surface in the Siberian permafrost, which contained fruit and seed,s to regenerate a flower from the tissue found inside. Russian scientists were able to fully construct the entire plant known as Sylene stenophylla.
It seems that the Siberian permafrost is a natural depository for everything that lived--- 30,000 years ago and more. Continued research into the permafrost will reveal a great deal of knowledge about our past. Of the reconstructed plant, Svetlana Yashina, who led the regeneration effort, said the new plant looks very similar one found in northeastern Siberia currently.
After investigating dozens of these fossil burrows located in ice deposits scients are confident of the future finds in the ice. The various layers of ice have yielded bones from large mammals, bison, deer, and a horse.
The study suggests that tissue can survive for thousands of years in the layers. The frozen ice acts as a tomd for all it envelopes. The research team hopes to find tissue of a mammoth so that a regeneration of a mammoth can be reconstructed.
What secrets await the scientists searching the cold of Siberia. Frozen in time, the contents of the den have given great promise to the scientific world. I think in the future we will be very surprised at the data found deep within the layers of this planet. Stored as sa harddrive from the past like a USB or jumpdrive hidden for all to find. What useful information can be gleaned from this experience?
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