Thread:Jurassic Park Treasury/@comment-11047508-20130610075940/@comment-3213993-20130703020356

I can't see Allentoft's table on the Proceedings of the Royal Society B website. Where else can I see it?

I wonder why the paper didn't account for the 1.1 million year half-life for DNA in ice.

I am also confused as to why scientists couldn't reproduce the findings of people who claimed to find DNA in amber insects. Is there any possible explanation for that? My only guess is that DNA in amber might be quite rare.

As I said in the forum, I think scientists should try extracting DNA from amber again, using specimens from various locations and time periods. Sadly, due to Allentoft's results and the widespread acceptance of those results, I doubt they would do that. Seriously, even if they fear that they might destroy potentially important amber insects for nothing, how hard is it to scan the insect specimens beforehand, 3D print some models of them, and study those later? It has been done before.