Articles for tag: ancient biology, ancient seeds, archaeology, botany, Environmental Science, genetic preservation, Historical Discoveries, plant revival, Plant Science, seed germination

Genetic Time Capsules and DNA Durability

Seeds Sprouting After 3,000 Years

Jan Otte

  What do you get when archaeologists find a cache of ancient seeds buried deep in frozen soil? Something that shouldn’t be possible according to our understanding of biology. Yet scientists have managed to resurrect plants from seeds that predate the Roman Empire, proving that life can remain dormant far longer than anyone imagined. These ...

A close-up of a dandelion with seeds dispersing into the blue sky, symbolizing change.

The Truth About Touch-Me-Nots: Why Some Plants Really Do Explode

Suhail Ahmed

Everyone remembers the first time a seed pod snaps under your fingers – the soft click, the sudden jolt, the tiny seeds flung like confetti. It feels mischievous, like the plant’s playing a prank, but there’s hard engineering buried in that moment. For centuries, people mistook these small blasts for botanical quirks when they are, ...