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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 lamination, it preserves ancient insects and plant remains and lets us ...
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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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The Tiny Caribbean Museum That Inspired the Jurassic Park Franchise
The science fiction that binds Jurassic Park’s storyline together is that dinosaur DNA could be extracted from mosquitos and ...