Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a rare gem
Unlike in Jurassic Park, there's no DNA Amber is an outstanding natural time capsule for scientists. With its protective ...
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The Way DNA Was Preserved In The Jurassic Park Movie Is Now A Reality Thanks To These Scientists
The first DNA sequence to be preserved in such a manner was seen in the movie Jurassic Park. In the film franchise, DNA preserved in amber was used to bring a population of long-extinct dinosaurs ...
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Dracula ticks in amber tell ancient blood-sucking tale
The fossils in amber may echo the fictional world of Jurassic Park, but they will not give up the secrets of dinosaur DNA. All attempts to extract DNA from amber specimens have failed since the ...
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The final nail in the Jurassic Park coffin
It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate. The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extracting DNA from insects in amber has held ...
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Beyond Jurassic World: what we really know about dinosaurs and how
Dinosaur researcher Prof Paul Barrett fills us in. The premise of the Jurassic Park film franchise is an elegant one: that dinosaur DNA, preserved in the guts of ancient mosquitoes trapped in amber, ...