Seagrass meadow found to be composed of extremely old, large organisms

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Mediterranean seagrass meadows contain genetically identical clones up to 15 kilometers apart, suggesting that these organisms must be thousands to tens of thousands of years old, as reported in the Feb. 1 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.

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