Extinct date palm seed meets Jurassic Park, sprouts

Talk about a food with some history behind it. According to Long Now, which credits this story in the blog Genetic Archeology, one of many date seeds verified to be roughly 2,000 years old and excavated from the fortress Masada has germinated. Could the long extinct Judean Date Palm be resurrected? If so, fruit might be sampled as early as 2010.

Wayne