This happy happenstance courtesy of nesting Ice Age squirrels A Russian research team found Late Pleistocene (therefore fossil) Siberian squirrel burrows 38 meters below today’s ground surface. They found the squirrels’ stash of seeds and immature Silene stenophylla fruit tissue inside and radiocarbon dated the fruit to 31,800 ± 300 years ago. The team propagated [...]
Tagged: Alexandra Yashina, burrows, clonal, David Gilichinsky, Edith Gakhova, fossil, Ice Age, Kolyma River, mammoth, permafrost, Pleistocene, propagation, Siberia, Siberian squirrels, Silene stenophylla, squirrels, Stanislav Gubin, Stanislav Maksimovich, Svetlana Yashina, wooly rhinocerus