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Digging for Ancient DNA.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20030423/Note2.as...
Submitted by Amarildo 21 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours ago
In the movie Jurassic Park, scientists discover fossilized insects that had eaten dinosaur blood just before they died. The dino blood is full of DNA—the instruction manual of life—and the scientists use some of those tiny molecules to bring dinosaurs back to life. One of the reasons this could never really happen is that DNA is incredibly fragile. Every speck of dino DNA has probably broken down during the 65 million years since the giant reptiles disappeared. Join discussion...

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