
Russians regenerate flowering plant from 30,000-year-old frozen burrow of Ice Age squirrel
Associated Press, 20 February 2012
The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

“We consider it essential to continue permafrost studies in search of an ancient genetic pool, that of pre-existing life, which hypothetically has long since vanished from the earth’s surface,” the scientists said in the article.