Thread:Jurassic Park Treasury/@comment-11047508-20130610075940/@comment-1259419-20130703082121

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

In my PDF it is at the bottom of page 7. DNA decay is shown for 25 degrees to -5 degrees.

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

Because it was measured by a different group.

I am also confused as to why scientists couldn't reproduce the findings of people who claimed to  find DNA in amber insects.

I can't find a paper in which they show what they have done. I can only see that they "couldn't reproduce Poinar's results". Making it impossible to judge or explain this.

even if they fear that they might destroy potentially important amber insects for nothing,

I've seen a paper showing DNA can be extracted without destroying the insect.