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Solve : DNA bird fossil?

Answer» DNA from the largest bird ever sequenced from fossil EGGSHELLS

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Posted on: March 9, 2010 7:00 PM, by Ed Yong
Aepyornis.jpgEven extinction and the passing of millennia are no barriers to clever geneticists. In the past few years, scientists have managed to sequence the complete GENOME of a prehistoric human and produced "first drafts" of the mammoth and Neanderthal genomes. More CONTROVERSIALLY, some groups have even recovered DNA from dinosaurs. Now, a variety of extinct birds join the ancient DNA club including the largest that ever lived - Aepyornis, the elephant bird.

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So birds are really descended from elephants. I knew the movie DUMBO was a true story.


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