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This is very interesting... IIRC previous estimates were about 1m years before DNA degraded too much to extract useful information. This seems to push that back
by xenadu02 7y ago
This is very interesting... IIRC previous estimates were about 1m years before DNA degraded too much to extract useful information. This seems to push that back a little bit.
Still, a Jurassic Park scenario is impossible. Even deeply frozen DNA isn’t stable over millions of years.
- burnte 7y agoNo, this doesn't push it back because this isn't DNA, it's genetic information but the information is recovered by decoding the proteins found in the enamel to generate the DNA/RNA string that produced them. It's kind of like making a mold from an existing widget when the original mold is gone.