Back in 2012, six Russian scientists uncovered some 32,000-year-old seeds and managed to grow a healthy plant from them.
These seeds were found covered in ice and buried 125 feet underground, deep in the Siberian permafrost.
At the time of this fascinating discovery, this group of scientists was investigating the burrows of ancient squirrels.
The plant that had grown from these seeds was, in fact, a Silene stenophylla, a flower that looks strikingly similar to its modern doppelgänger that still grows in Siberia.
