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I'd be very curious to see how much genetic material they could recover from this. It'd be fascinating to see how much of the grasshopper genome has been conser
by hyperific 3y ago
I'd be very curious to see how much genetic material they could recover from this. It'd be fascinating to see how much of the grasshopper genome has been conserved over 29 million years. I.e. how different are today's grasshoppers from those from 29M years ago?
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoProbably nothing; fossilized means it's mineralized, turned into stone. At best they can see what it looked like (they mentioned a scan). They can get (some?) DNA from things they get out of the permafrost though, like wooly mammoths.
- praptak 3y agoDNA doesn't last that long. I think the record is about 2 million years, tiny fragments of DNA recovered from samples drilled from under Greenland ice. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/unlocking-the-oldest-known-dna-revealed-a-lost-greenland-from-2-million-years-ago https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/unlocking-the-oldest-kn...
- 7thaccount 3y agoSoooo... you're telling me no Jurassic Park?