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Cano and Borucki [ 26 ] revived a bacterial spore from the abdominal contents of extinct bees preserved for 25 to 40 million years in buried Dominican amber and cultured and identified it.
Dentists, after all, are supposed to be extinct by now.
Nature lovers can hike (or rent a donkey) up the extinct volcano of Mount Epomeo, 788 m (2,585 ft), starting from Fontana for unforgettable views of the island and the Bay of Naples.
Researchers said the find offered unprecedented opportunities: 1) to determine why mammoths became extinct; 2) to understand the world's climate at the time; and 3) to clone the animal.
The earliest sediments after the mass extinction that did away with the dinosaurs are barren of fossils: so it is not just that species were going extinct, conditions for life itself were bad.