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And yet they keep "restoring" parts of ancient DNA from fossilized bones for further analysis. Who knows what's possible in the future, maybe they'll use frogs

• estaseuropano 5y ago
  When the bones have turned to stone there's not much to restore as the stone/minerals essentially just fill the empty shape that the body left behind. I think they can do some minor analysis still, like e.g. pigment analysis to identify possible colors. But if its just 'very old bones' you can still get DNA fragments. The chance of getting a whole strand of DNA is however pretty low. So you might be able to identify relations, but you wouldn't be able to clone them.
• dreamcompiler 5y ago
  If you're talking about woolly mammoth DNA [0], that's around 10,000 years old. This mosquito is around 50 million years old. The DNA in its belly is too degraded. Restoration ain't gonna happen. [0] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036884561/dna-resurrection-jurassic-park-woolly-mammoth https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036884561/dna-resurrection-j...