Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/19/2012 - 18:27
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Predatory Spiders in the Arctic Food Web

The grass that was trapped in the permafrost for over 20,000 years, I assume was once part of the native landscape. Is that type of grass still found in the tundra today, if not could it be possible for scientists to bring it back and that it would do well in the environment again. Mark Boyd

Mon, 08/20/2012 - 18:25

Nick LaFave

That's a really good question. We didn't identify the grass, so I really don't know if it is still around today. It looked much like the common grasses that we see though. The cool thing about your second question is that even the bones found in the permafrost are actual bones, not fossils! So DNA could still potentially be extracted from much of that material! Pretty cool!