▲ 66 ▼ Scientists find first-ever evidence of fossilized blood cells in 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones (www.thebrighterside.news) submitted 5 days ago by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to c/science@beehaw.org 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments Note: this is not an article about Mitch McConnell having a health checkup with a doctor.
[–] remington@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago (3 children) Will there be plans to clone? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 child) As someone else said, no cloning from a fossil. To expand on that a bit, a fossil is when all the organic material, all the actual parts of whatever is getting fossilized, is sloooooowly washed away and replaced with stone. For macroscopic things like bones, that means we get to keep the shape and maybe texture, but for microscopic things like DNA, it's just gone. Waaaaay too fine to get locked in the fossil most likely, and even if it was there, how do you even read it? It's rock sitting in a blob of other rock, except there's some structure there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] remington@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago Thanks for the explanation permalink fedilink source parent [–] 667@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 days ago Since they’re fossilized, there’s no longer any biological material; cloning wouldn’t be possible. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 child) As someone else said, no cloning from a fossil. To expand on that a bit, a fossil is when all the organic material, all the actual parts of whatever is getting fossilized, is sloooooowly washed away and replaced with stone. For macroscopic things like bones, that means we get to keep the shape and maybe texture, but for microscopic things like DNA, it's just gone. Waaaaay too fine to get locked in the fossil most likely, and even if it was there, how do you even read it? It's rock sitting in a blob of other rock, except there's some structure there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] remington@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago Thanks for the explanation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] remington@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago Thanks for the explanation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 667@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 days ago Since they’re fossilized, there’s no longer any biological material; cloning wouldn’t be possible. permalink fedilink source parent