Researchers have demonstrated that, after over 1,500 years frozen in Antarctic ice, moss can come back to life and continue to grow. For the first time, this vital part of the ecosystem in both polar regions has been shown to have the ability to survive century to millennial scale ice ages. (1, 2)
According to the many, this provides exciting new insight into the survival of life on Earth.
For me, this reminds me of a great poet…
“That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die”…