Ancient Palm Resurrected from 2000-Year-Old Seed

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

Scientists have successfully grown a date palm from a 2000-year-old seed dug up from the Judean desert. That makes the seed, whose age has just been verified by radiocarbon dating, the oldest ever to germinate.

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