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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by myth_drannon on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:43PM (#22301251)
Why only plant's seeds have the ability to survive for so long? Why not mammals?
Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by rriepe on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:53PM (#22302709)
Mammal "seeds" (gametes or zygotes) never evolved to be outside the body for any period of time.

In theory you could probably do this with a 2,000-year-old platypus egg that had been preserved in amber. But otherwise mammals just tend to have really short shelf lives for these things.