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Re:Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber by aerodog on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:54AM (#14511979)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA - it looks like scientists gave up hope of retrieving dna from amber, but there are recent examples of extracting dna from ~ 1 million year old specimens...
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Re:Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber by sr2 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:39AM (#14514467)
But even if they had dino DNA, would they be able to reconstruct a dino from it, like they're trying to do with mammoths?

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/16/woolly-mammo...

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Re:Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber by pipedreams2 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:40PM (#14517384)
I sure hope so
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