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Pretty sure this was the start of Jurassic Park's plot
by majestik 9y ago
Pretty sure this was the start of Jurassic Park's plot
- aerodog 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA - it looks like scientists gave up hope of retrieving dna from amber, but there are recent examples of extracting dna from ~ 1 million year old specimens...
- sr2 9y agoBut even if they had dino DNA, would they be able to reconstruct a dino from it, like they're trying to do with mammoths? [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/16/woolly-mammoth-resurrection-scientists https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/16/woolly-mammo...
- pipedreams2 9y agoI sure hope so
- pvaldes 9y agoIt seems that is only an resin imprint; bassically without usable DNA