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Cue the theme music from Jurassic Park: A 46-million-year-old mosquito fossil full of blood has been found in a Montana riverbed. It is one of the rarest fossils ever found but, sadly for us, the DNA from the blood cannot be extracted to make dinosaurs given how old it is. Also, dinosaurs were long extinct by then, thus further precluding the possibility of being chased through a science lab by a bunch of raptors. “It’s following Crichton’s script in that we’re using a blood engorged fossil mosquito and in this case we’re using the direct descendent of the dinosaurs, given that we’re 20 million years late,” said study author Dale Greenwalt of the Smithsonian Institution.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:08:17 +0000

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