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A 46,000,000-year-old mosquito still had blood inside (thelemmy.club)

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A fossilized mosquito preserved for 46,000,000 years was discovered with blood still inside its abdomen a rare snapshot of ancient life frozen in time

Article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/1015/46-million-year-old-mosquito-filled-with-blood-is-a-scientific-first

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery 8 points 2 weeks ago

What if we used a time machine, go back in time, place a mosquito on a dinosaur, then when all full of blood place it into a cryogenic container that can last say 70+million years, go back to the present, find the container, and sequence the DNA?

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Why not just bring the mosquito back? Or the actual dinosaur?

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Science is supposed to be complicated, dammit! /s

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, you also attended Rube Goldberg University?

Good ol' RGU. The Fightin' Contraptions.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(That was the joke. Well, an attempt at a joke at least.)

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was too early in the morning for me to pick up on that.

My fault, not yours.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No worries, I get mistaken for a stupid person all the time (... but I added the word "mistaken" there out of my own hubris, deep down I know those are no mistakes).