{"id":128449,"date":"2021-10-02T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/fossil-of-peacock-like-dinosaur-may-have-preserved-dna-remnants"},"modified":"2021-10-02T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:23:29","slug":"fossil-of-peacock-like-dinosaur-may-have-preserved-dna-remnants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/fossil-of-peacock-like-dinosaur-may-have-preserved-dna-remnants","title":{"rendered":"Fossil of Peacock-Like Dinosaur May Have Preserved DNA Remnants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-of-peacock-like-dinosaur-may-have-preserved-dna-remnants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as <em>Gizmodo<\/em>\u2019s report highlights, many experts believe that these researchers have not actually found evidence of dinosaur DNA. They told the news outlet, for example, that\u2014even under the best circumstances\u2014DNA couldn\u2019t last more than three million years. Let alone more than 100 million. And that the chemicals may have been staining inorganic matter that only looks cellular in nature.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the most ancient DNA that scientists have been able to sequence was that of a million-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/scientists-resurrecting-woolly-mammoth-crispr-colossus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">woolly mammoth.<\/a> And the youngest dinosaurs are at least 65 million years old. But if future experiments do confirm this evidence as real, then that really changes things. At least in our fantasies, where reanimated dinosaurs and Ian Malcolms abound.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/peacock-fossil-may-have-preserved-dinosaur-dna-real-life-jurassic-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Fossil of Peacock-Like Dinosaur May Have Preserved DNA Remnants<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Nerdist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, as Gizmodo\u2019s report highlights, many experts believe that these researchers have not actually found evidence of dinosaur DNA. They told the news outlet, for example, that\u2014even under the best circumstances\u2014DNA couldn\u2019t last more than three million years. Let alone more than 100 million. And that the chemicals may have been staining inorganic matter that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}