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400,000-year-old DNA found in bear tooth
YAHOO NEWS ^ | 07/24/2006

Posted on 07/25/2006 10:04:25 AM PDT by SirLinksalot

400,000-year-old DNA found in bear tooth

A Swedish-led team of scientists has discovered 400,000-year-old DNA in bear teeth, the Uppsala University in Sweden said.

The team, made up of Swedish, Spanish and German researchers, discovered the remains of the bear in a cave in Atapuerca, northern Spain.

"It is usually hard to find DNA that is older than 100,000 years, and work on fossilized DNA mostly focuses on material that is a few tens of thousands of years old, at most," team leader Anders Goetherstroem said in a statement.

He said the find "pushed back the frontier" concerning the age of DNA that scientists could work with. "It means that it will be possible to subject a large number of extinct animals to DNA analysis," he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 000; 400; crevo; crevolist; dna; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; paleontology
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1 posted on 07/25/2006 10:04:28 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: PatrickHenry

PING


2 posted on 07/25/2006 10:06:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SirLinksalot

Now they can go back and see if anyone convicted of a crime 400,000 years ago was wrongfully convicted.


3 posted on 07/25/2006 10:07:30 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: SirLinksalot

I remember a thread somewhere in FR where it was reported that from a team led by Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have found probable blood vessels, bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil.

Can't seem to find that thread though.


4 posted on 07/25/2006 10:07:36 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: SirLinksalot

Now they can go back and see if anyone convicted of a crime 400,000 years ago was wrongfully convicted.


5 posted on 07/25/2006 10:07:54 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: SirLinksalot

It shows what they know. Back then they were the Staleys.


6 posted on 07/25/2006 10:11:37 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: taxesareforever

Didn't convict OJ, and that was just in 95........


7 posted on 07/25/2006 10:11:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: SirLinksalot
.....400,000-year-old DNA found in bear tooth

well, how old was the bear?

8 posted on 07/25/2006 10:14:49 AM PDT by Fighting Irish (Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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To: SirLinksalot

Bearassic Park next up.


9 posted on 07/25/2006 10:17:15 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: SirLinksalot
It means that it will be possible to subject a large number of extinct animals to DNA analysis

And eventually bring them back to life. 1,000 years from now someone will be able to buy a DNA printer for their home computer from Comp USA, put the output into an incubator for a few months, and presto, any animal or person from the past can be re-created. And like buying a new ring tone for their phone they will be able to add fashionable DNA features to their new pet.

10 posted on 07/25/2006 10:18:30 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: SirLinksalot

Lions and tigers and BEARS OH MY!!


11 posted on 07/25/2006 10:19:17 AM PDT by Hazcat
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To: SirLinksalot
Wow, a 400,000 year old bear on a 5000 year old planet.

Possibly an alien bear astronaught?

12 posted on 07/25/2006 10:21:22 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: SirLinksalot

>>>I remember a thread somewhere in FR where it was reported that from a team led by Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have found probable blood vessels, bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil.>>>

Why wouldn't that make national headlines? Wouldn't that dispel the myth of dinosaurs existing MILLIONS of years ago?


13 posted on 07/25/2006 10:25:27 AM PDT by sandbar
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Bearassic Park

Sounds like a nudist colony.

14 posted on 07/25/2006 10:43:09 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Vaquero

Thanks for the ping, but in my always humble opinion, this is a thread to avoid.


15 posted on 07/25/2006 10:44:24 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (The Enlightenment gave us individual rights, free enterprise, and the theory of evolution.)
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To: SirLinksalot

Que Jurassic Park Theme!


16 posted on 07/25/2006 10:45:11 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (This is no time for bleeding hearts, pacifists, and appeasers to prevail in free world opinion.)
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To: SirLinksalot

What caliber for 400,000 year old bears?


17 posted on 07/25/2006 11:11:16 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: SirLinksalot

The bear had "Kanawa was here" carved into it.


18 posted on 07/25/2006 11:12:25 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 7/24/2006 . Thanks SirLinksalot. This turned up in my search for the Old Uppsala story.

19 posted on 11/03/2013 6:43:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

i hate it when i get something stuck in my teeth


20 posted on 11/03/2013 7:07:04 PM PST by bigheadfred
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