419 Million-Year Old DNA Found

It won’t make Jurassic Park a reality, but scientists have discovered 419 million-year-old DNA intact inside ancient salt deposits. The genetic material, the oldest ever found, belongs to salt-loving bacteria whose ancestors may have been among the first life forms on Earth.

via World’s oldest known DNA discovered – Discovery.com- msnbc.com.


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