Thursday, August 23, 2012

Ice Age Irish plant is still thriving 150,000 years later experts discover

[Irish Central]  Researchers have discovered a plant that has survived in Ireland since the Ice Age. According to the Irish Times, a team from NUI Maynooth, led by ecologist Dr Conor Meade, used an advanced DNA sampling method to show that the plant, Fringed Sandwort, has lived in Ireland for up to 150,000 years.