1,000-Year-Old Seed from Biblical Tree Revived

If you found a 1,000-year-old seed, do you think it would grow? Well, archaeologists working in the Judean Desert found a seed believed to be about that old in a cave and eventually decided to plant it���and now 14 years later they have a ten-foot-tall tree growing in a greenhouse. Why is this tree significant?

Well, not only is it incredible that a seed could sit around for 1,000 years and then grow, but the seed is believed to be a remnant from a now-extinct population of trees mentioned in th...