[Rockhounds] Ancient moss awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

[Paul]

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
By Daniel Ackerman, The Washington Post, July 7, 2019,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html

Aulacomnium turgidum - Swollen Thread-moss
PDF file - 
https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Activities/mosses/Aulacomnium%20turgidum.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulacomnium_turgidum

The papers are:

Roads, E., Longton, R.E. and Convey, P., 2014.
Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from
Antarctica. Current Biology, 24(6), pp.R222-R223.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214000864

La Farge, C., Williams, K.H. and England, J.H., 2013.
Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging
from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency
in extreme environments. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 110(24), pp.9839-9844.s
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/24/9839

Yours,

Paul H.