1500-Year-Old Moss Lives

Researchers have demonstrated moss frozen in ice on the Antarctic Peninsula for at least 1530 years can be revived and continue to grow, showing that a vital element of ecosystems can survive long-term, millennial-scale ice ages.

50,000-Year-Old Moss

A species of peat moss (Sphagnum palustre) found in the Hawaiian Islands differs from that found elsewhere in that it reproduces strictly by cloning, with fossil records and genetic analysis suggesting it is as much as 50,000 years old.