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frogmarch

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3. haha, well,

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 11:39 PM

Jul 2016

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even if DNA could be found in Baltic amber inclusions, these fossils date to only around 44 million years ago - Paleogene Period (mid-late Eocene Epoch) - and dinos went extinct around 65.5 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period (the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary), so, too bad for us, it'll never happen.

The Jurassic Park mosquito containing dinosaur DNA was cool, though. The mosquito supposedly was found in Jurassic amber.

EDIT: First I said the mosquito supposedly was found in Cretaceous amber. I don't know why I said that.

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