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Joel Kontinen
Paleobiologist
Alida Bailleul from the Chinese Academy of Science has become the woman who believes she could be the oldest partially intact DNA ever found in a specimen of the
dinosaur Hypacrosaurus..
Now,
according to evolution, dinosaurs have to be at least 65 million years old. However,
The dinos they sequenced was between 74 and 80 million years old. Actually,
dinosaurs DNA and soft tissue that they
were living just recently.
Earlier this year, scientists announced they'd sequenced DNA from a 1.2-million-year-old mammoth tooth. But it is a long jump to dinosaurs.
Source:
Bowler. Jacinta, 2021, The Trouble with dinosaur bones Science
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