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Today in “Bringing Stuff Back From the Dead” Science News:

1. Ancient yeast found Incan tomb resurrected, scientists immediately use it to make booze: An Incan tomb was discovered in Quito, Ecuador in the 1980’s that housed more than a dozen well-adorned Incan corpses. They were surrounded by food and drink offerings in large clay urns, similar to more familiar Egyptian customs, including an Incan alcoholic brew called chicha. Scientists revived the long-dormant Candida relatives and used them to recreate the beverage, which they of course drank. Read the full story at SciAm.
2. Squirrels bury seeds 30,000 years ago, humans find them frozen in permafrost, still make flowers: Thanks to an ancient Russian squirrel choosing a burrow that became buried in Siberian permafrost, Russian scientists were able to coax seeds into fully-formed flowers after millennia in deep freeze. Ed Yong has the whole tale, which sounds a lot like the beginning of Ice Age.