Ancient moss awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

[Oxytropidoceras]

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

By Daniel Ackerman, The Washington Post, July 7, 2019, 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html

 

Aulacomnium turgidum - Swollen Thread-moss

PDF file - https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Activities/mosses/Aulacomnium turgidum.pdf

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulacomnium_turgidum

 

The papers are:

 

Roads, E., Longton, R.E. and Convey, P., 2014. 

Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from 

Antarctica. Current Biology, 24(6), pp.R222-R223.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214000864

 

La Farge, C., Williams, K.H. and England, J.H., 2013. 

Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging 

from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency 

in extreme environments. Proceedings of the National 

Academy of Sciences, 110(24), pp.9839-9844.s

https://www.pnas.org/content/110/24/9839

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Scylla]

Sounds like the beginning of a 1950's sci fi movie