Zombie plants? Frozen plants thaw and wake up from 400-year nap (via The Christian Science Monitor)
This moss froze about 500 years ago, when it was covered by an advancing glacier. Now that the glaciers are in retreat, the exposed ‘zombie’ moss is growing again, in a petri dish in the lab of University of Alberta scientist Catherine La Farge.(Courtesy of the Catherine La Farge / Proceedings of the…