BBC7 年
Dracula ticks in amber tell ancient blood-sucking tale
The fossils in amber may echo the fictional world of Jurassic Park, but they will not give up the secrets of dinosaur DNA. All attempts to extract DNA from amber specimens have failed since the ...
University of Manchester11 年
The final nail in the Jurassic Park coffin
It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate. The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extracting DNA from insects in amber has held ...
Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a rare gem
Unlike in Jurassic Park, there's no DNA Amber is an outstanding ... More information: Alicja Pełczyńska et al, Eocene amber ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Beyond Jurassic World: what we really know about dinosaurs and how
The premise of the Jurassic Park film franchise is an elegant one: that dinosaur DNA, preserved in the guts of ancient mosquitoes trapped in amber, could be used to clone these animals and ... which ...
World Footprints on MSN3 个月
The Tiny Caribbean Museum That Inspired the Jurassic Park Franchise
I collected fossils. My daily companions were ... “From what Michael Crichton said, he had written Jurassic Park,” said ...