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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?

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Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years.

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But that's just a quick nap compared with Antarctic moss.

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They're the dominant vegetation in polar regions.

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And now a sample has been revived after lying dormant for at least fifteen hundred years.

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Researchers extracted a 1.4 meters long cylinder of permafrost containing Antarctic moss.

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They then cultivated shoots taken from various points along the length of the cylinder.

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Many of these shoots flourished, even though they'd been long frozen.

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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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The researchers considered that the ancient sample could have been contaminated with more recent plant spores.

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But then they'd expect to see multiple moss species.

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That they found just one species strongly suggests it is indeed the ancient moss springing back to life.

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The work is in the journal Current Biology.

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The longest known revival for a frozen multicellular organism had been only about 20 years.

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But these frosty mosses could break that record in their sleep.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.

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