The Basic Idea
Although it’s too late to find dino-DNA, scientists recently found something almost as intriguing.
They discovered DNA fragments in the fossils of Neanderthals and other ancient mammals, such as woolly mammoths .
Now that makes sense; those fragments are less than 2 million years old, well before all of the DNA would decay.
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