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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?
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2 .Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years.
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3 .But that's just a quick nap compared with Antarctic moss.
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4 .They're the dominant vegetation in polar regions.
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5 .And now a sample has been revived after lying dormant for at least fifteen hundred years.
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6 .Researchers extracted a 1.4 meters long cylinder of permafrost containing Antarctic moss.
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7 .They then cultivated shoots taken from various points along the length of the cylinder.
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8 .Many of these shoots flourished, even though they'd been long frozen.
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9 .And carbon-dating of material alongside the core at the 1.1 meter mark showed it to be from 1,500 to 1,700 years old.
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10 .The researchers considered that the ancient sample could have been contaminated with more recent plant spores.
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11 .But then they'd expect to see multiple moss species.
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12 .That they found just one species strongly suggests it is indeed the ancient moss springing back to life.
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13 .The work is in the journal Current Biology.
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14 .The longest known revival for a frozen multicellular organism had been only about 20 years.
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15 .But these frosty mosses could break that record in their sleep.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.
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