Posts Tagged ‘shelf life of DNA’

WFS News: Debate on shelf life of DNA vs presence of DNA in fossils

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 75 million years ago, a nest of plant-eating dinosaurs called Hypacrosaurus stebingeri died in what’s now Montana. Their fossils were found in the 1980s, and now an international team of scientists has presented evidence that the old bones contain traces of genetic material. The paper published in National Science […]