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Long-Lost Myrrh Species Resurrected from 1,000-Year-Old Seed


A team of biologists in Israel has grown an extinct -- or at least extirpated -- tree species of the myrrh genus Commiphora from an ancient seed found in the northern Judean Desert in the 1980s.

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