Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Squirrels help science

Squirrels get a lot of flack for being an annoyance at times, but here’s a neat article on how a 30,000 year old squirrel’s stash of burrowed food has been retrieved from Siberian permafrost and one of the extinct flowers was regenerated. Nice work ancient squirrel!

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The Regenerated Flower

Read the full story from The Chronicle Herald.