Remnants of Ancient Dinosaur DNA Discovered in 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil
Scientists detected a 125-million-year-old dinosaur DNA in China, and it could be the oldest recorded chromosome material preserved in a vertebrate fossil.
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Scientists detected a 125-million-year-old dinosaur DNA in China, and it could be the oldest recorded chromosome material preserved in a vertebrate fossil.
Most people predicting a real-life Jurassic Park expect to see it happen in Siberia, where frozen corpses of extinct wooly mammoths and other Ice Age creatures are appearing regularly as the permafrost melts. However, if you’re hoping to visit a theme park filled with velociraptors, T. rexes and the like, the place may be somewhere... Read more »
>> dana: my story was that cursing can cost you $500 in myrtle beach. i'm a little worried about that. greg, was is yours? scientists may have uncovered what dinosaur dna looks like. >> brian: what does that mean? >> greg: there is a joke we cannot say but let me say we might be able to have our own little dinosaurs. we can make them. >> lisa: more fossil fuels? >> greg: that is how i capitalist things. we bring back the dinosaurs and kill them for fuel. i am a monster. burn the dinosaurs for fuel. >> dana: it's not a terrible idea. >> greg: and might be the worst idea ever. >> dana: "one more...
Dna? >> sadly not. the oldest dna recovered is from a horse bone found preserved in the frozen arctic soil. we know this bone is somewhere around 700,000 years old. this age is kind of critical because this is actually the oldest ice that's known. so dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. between then and now there have been periods in history when there was no ice, it was a very vsh hot planet. that means there's probably no place that dinosaur dna at all survives. >> what about the frozen mammoths let's go to "ice age" if we're going to do movies. people do find frozen mammoths right? ...
The oldest dna recovered is from a horse bone found preserved in the frozen arctic soil. frozen soil called permafrost. we know this bone is somewhere around 700,000 years old. this age is kind of critical because this is actually the oldest ice that's known. so dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. between then and now there have been periods in history when there was no ice, it was a very, very hot planet. that means there's probably not any place that dinosaur dna at all survives. >> what about the frozen mammoths, let's go to "ice age" if we're going to do movies. people do find fro...