Scientists Peg DNA Decay Rates, Quash Jurassic Park Hopes

Mashable 2014-07-29

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Scientists have discovered DNA has a half-life of 521 years, which means it’s completely decayed within 6.8 million years of an organism’s death. What’s more, readable amounts only exist in fossils for some 1.5 million years.
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