Six-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell May Still Hold Ancient DNA Traces
Traces of ancient deoxyribonucleic acid appear to have been found within the 6 - million - twelvemonth - sure-enough fossil osseous tissue of an extinct turtle . This is staggeringly quondam grounds of DNA and may suggest that genetic material can last much longer than antecedently appreciate . find along the Caribbean coast of Panama , the fogy consists of a broken eggshell , but the rest skeleton has since been lose ....