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In 1994, while Jurassic Park was still taking in millions of dollars at the box office, scientists claimed to have extracted and sequenced DNA from an 80-million-year-old dinosaur [1].
[ 28 ] reported the isolation and growth of a previously unrecognized spore-forming bacterium (a Bacillus species, designated 2-9-3) from a brine inclusion within a 250 million-year-old salt crystal from the Permian Salado Formation.
In 2000, a team of United States researchers claimed to have cultured a bacterium sealed inside a 250-million-year-old salt crystal [9].
The oldest rocks are 500 million-year-old slates found around the northern peak of Skiddaw, where the mountains have smooth and rounded profiles.
Scientists found a new candidate for the missing link between apes and humans . The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.