Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old ... previous research led by Sallon on 2,000-year-old date palm seeds. The approach involved soaking the mysterious Judean ...

What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry ... Now a new DNA and seed-shape analysis adds weight to the idea that the remote ...

PixabayJudean dates were ubiquitously grown in the region until the 19th century and famed for their long shelf life. Who would have known that seeds from 2,000 years ago would still be able to ...