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Century-Old Eggs Brought to Life Monday, July 20, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science. Cornell ecologist Nelson Hairston Jr. is a pioneer in a field known loosely as "resurrection ecology," in which researchers study the eggs of such creatures as zooplankton - tiny, free-floating water animals - that get buried in lake sediments and can remain viable for decades or even centuries. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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