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Centuries-old frozen plants revived
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| 27 May 2013
Posted on 05/29/2013 7:02:58 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Plants that were frozen during the "Little Ice Age" centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth, scientists say. Samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions. Researchers say this back-from-the-dead trick has implications for how ecosystems recover from the planet's cyclic long periods of ice coverage.
The findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They come from a group from the University of Alberta, who were exploring an area around the Teardrop Glacier, high in the Canadian Arctic. The glaciers in the region have been receding at rates that have sharply accelerated since 2004, at about 3-4m per year. That is exposing land that has not seen light of day since the so-called Little Ice Age, a widespread climatic cooling that ran roughly from AD 1550 to AD 1850.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Gardening; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: bryophytes
To: JoeProBono
One of these days they're going to revive a bug that will wipe out half the nation.
Think Pandora's box.
To: JoeProBono
It’s all fun and games until it turns into a 1951 sci-fi film.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:12:21 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: Sacajaweau
That, I fear, is closer than we think. Man is really playing with fire with all the genetic research we are doing.
To: JoeProBono
What a dilemma for “The Greenies!”
Settled Greenie science: Global Warming, BAD; Green Earth, GOOD.
Now that the Globe is warming, the glaciers are receeding and underneath the slumbering plants are turning the newly exposed Earth Green!
Oh Noooooooossssssss! Global Warming is now a “Green” Event!!!
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:18:12 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
(Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: JoeProBono
...which will be delivered to your sweetie by ProFlowers.com in 3....2....1......
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:35:23 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: Resolute Conservative
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:36:49 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: edpc
Or a classic Dr. Who episode....
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:50:06 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:02:44 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: wally_bert
Crynoids!
Audrey Jr. LOL!
YIKES!
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:04:32 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: JoeProBono
So if we cause a species to go extinct that’s horrible but if we bring back an extinct species that’s so cool. Hmmm...
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:11:00 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
To: left that other site
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:17:03 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Today, it’s bryophytes. Tomorrow it’ll be T-Rex.
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:31:08 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: JoeProBono
Oooo...I like the looks of that one.
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posted on
05/29/2013 9:49:21 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: bgill
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posted on
05/29/2013 10:40:47 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Centuries-old frozen plants revived ... , and immediately began campaigning for US Senate seats.
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posted on
05/29/2013 10:44:34 AM PDT
by
meadsjn
To: left that other site
Glad someone else got the reference.
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posted on
05/29/2013 6:28:56 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: wally_bert
I loved Tom Baker. He was my favorite Dr.
And a good Rasputin too!
:-0
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05/29/2013 6:30:03 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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