Posted on 05/16/2006 1:02:49 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
"The new data challenge the mainstream idea"
I just love new data!
"Ancient sequences were isolated from five Italian aurochs fossils previously dated at between 7,000 and 17,000 years old."
How long until DNA degrades to the point of being useless?
The Chao says Mu.
when their funding runs out
LOL - I think you're right.
Quasi-GG Ping
"How long until DNA degrades to the point of being useless?"
It seems to set in when they are re-elected to office.
Cattle Call Lyrics
The cattle are prowlin' and the coyotes are howlin' way out where the doggies bawl
Where spurs are jinglin' my cowboy is singin' his lonesome cattle call mhm
[ strings ]
He rides in the sun till his day's work is done and he rounds up the cattle each fall
[ strings ]
Mhm singin' his cattle call
For hours he will ride on the range far and wide
When the night wind blows up a squall
His heart is a feather in all kinds of weather he sings his cattle call mhm
[ strings ]
He's brown as a berry from ridin' the prairie as he rounds up the cattle each fall
[ strings ]
Mhm singin' his cattle call mhm
That doesn't compute. Africa is a southern Mediterranean locale. Maybe it should be northern Mediterranean locales?
I don't know, depends on the conditions, etc.
A 224 million year old bacteria live bacteria was found trapped in a salt crystal. So...
Maybe up to 60,000,000 years. Right now "they" are looking for DNA sequences in soft tissues remarkably preserved from dinosaurs.
http://www.wonderquest.com/cow.htm
If you watch Braveheart closely, during the scene when Wallace and his men cross the river and Wallace hides inside of a dead Scottish cow, you'll see what I think are modern day analogues of the Aurochs.
Scottish Highland cattle closely resemble them and Herefords [when unpolled] are capable of growing massive and long *forward pointing* horns that greatly resemble the cattle pictured in cave art.
Their horns grow in roughly the same shape and position as elephants tusks do, for help in visualizing it.
Just my tuppence tossed in....:)
"The researchers examined chemical sequences of mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the mother. Ancient sequences were isolated from five Italian aurochs fossils previously dated at between 7,000 and 17,000 years old."
DNA from a FOSSIL? Must just be sloppy reporting.
A skeleton is a fossil, and yes, you can get DNA from a skeleton.
I might be related through my Aunt Betty Holstein.
I can't wait to see what comes of that. Could get very interesting, I would think.
Except of course that an aurochs was sized more like a rhino than a cow. :)
Hmmm. I thought a skeleton was a skeleton and a fossil was, well, fossilized, i.e., the original bone matter replaced by silica.
What am I missing?
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