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Over 1400 Years Old – Scientists Discover Oldest Known Marine Plant


A seagrass clone in the Baltic Sea is over 1,400 years old. A collaborative team of researchers from Kiel, London, Oldenburg, and Davis, California, have successfully used a groundbreaking genetic clock to determine the age of a massive marine plant clone. For the first time, they have dated a seag

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