Notas científicas: ¡Resucitan unas briofitas sepultada bajo el hielo de un glaciar que tenia 400 años! Es bien conocido entre los botánicos la increíble resistencia a la sequía de las briofitas, que es un termino que abarca a las plantas terrestre no vasculares. El termino Briofita o Bryophyta previene del griego antiguo bruno "musgo" y phyton... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1064600...
Plants brought back to life after 400+ years under a glacier Canadian researchers from the University of Alberta were exploring the area around Teardrop Glacier in the Canadian Arctic when they found plants that had been frozen for over 400 years during the period known as the Little Ice Age (1550-1850). After bringing them back to their lab, they... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1089890...
Plants re-grow after five centuries under the ice While monitoring the retreat of the Teardrop Glacier in the Canadian Arctic, scientists have found that recently unfrozen plants, some of which had been under ice since the reign of Henry VIII, were capable of new growth. While in the field, the researchers from the University of Alberta discovered... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1128947...
Liverwort--This is a division of bryophyte plants, as are mosses. They do not have clearly differentiated leaves and stems and produce spores, not seeds. The light colored dots in the leaves are oil bodies which are useful in identifying the species. - https://picasaweb.google.com/1147817...