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To: LindyBill who wrote (105833)	3/24/2005 7:52:34 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 793778

That is so cool!

To: LindyBill who wrote (105833)	3/24/2005 9:23:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

..dinosaur blood vessels to be “virtually indistinguishable” from those recovered from ostrich bones. Wow, that settles a scholarly controversy.

To: LindyBill who wrote (105833)	3/24/2005 10:27:20 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793778

Remember the European 9,000 year old Ice Man I mentioned a year or two ago? They already can extract DNA from tissues, and hair....Don't forget hair. Particularly the roots of hair. A person’s maternal ancestry is traced by mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short. Both men and women possess mtDNA, but only women pass it on to their children. The Seven Daughters of Eve - By Dr. Brian Sykes oxfordancestors.com But in a separate article in Science, Dr. Lawrence Witmer, a paleontologist at Ohio University, who had no part in the research, said: “If we have tissues that are not fossilized, then we can potentially extract DNA. It’s very exciting.”