400 year-old plant comes back to life

On an annual trip to the Arctic, a Canadian scientist spotted some moss that had previously been frozen under glaciers for about 400 years. When she took the plant back to the lab, she wondered if it could be brought back to life. Yes, yes it could.
University of Alberta biologist Catherine La Farge and her colleagues go on an
nual trips to the Teardrop glacier on Ellesmere Island, located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
In the past few years, she’s watched the glacier retreat, exposing rock, mud and ancient moss that had been buried under the ice since the Little Ice Age, which lasted from 1550 to 1850, Sheila Pratt reported in the Edmonton Journal.
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