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'10,000-Year-Old' Seeds Debunked - Found At Miller Creek, Yukon

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However, Zazula suspects that ancient seeds will yet be discovered that remain viable, and that live plants could still be grown from them.

"The record now for the oldest viable seeds is held by a 2,000-year-old date palm recovered near the Dead Sea," he says.

In 2002, Russian scientists published a claim that they had germinated a 33,000-year-old seed of a small tundra flower (Silene stenophylla).

But they published their work in a relatively unknown journal, and the claim has received almost no acceptance in the scientific community, Zazula says.

Yet "although we have shown that these Arctic lupines were not old as previously thought, I still think that in the near future we will be able to grow ancient, ice age seeds that are preserved in permafrost," Zazula says.

Indeed, studies are already underway to attempt to germinate real ancient seeds from the Yukon permafrost, he says. 
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