100-milllion-year-old bacteria have been found and revived.
All I'm saying is that 2020 might not be the best year for this sort of thing...
All I'm saying is that 2020 might not be the best year for this sort of thing...
Considering that's about when placentals were still shrews hiding in holes and sauropods were at their biggest, I think modern species such as H. sapiens will be okay. It would be interesting to know how they're different from modern microbes; I'll try digging through that journal later.
I remember reading a very hilarious yet informative list (I think somewhere on tumblr) which considered the results of licking in which different fields of science. I vaguely remember that (paraphrasing) geology was 'go ahead' and epidemiology was 'God, please NO.'
As for reviving ancient tissue, I'm still waiting for my mammoth.
I'm fine with it. If it ends up consuming us for biomass then that's 2020 for ya and no harm no foul.
If it's not the one I remember, it's a very close cousin. Thanks for finding it, still fun to read.Not the exact list you probably had in mind, but: https://imgur.com/r/tumblr/J4iHB7k
According to one of my family members, for certain branches of science, this is aThe next step is to find out what they taste like. hey, I don't make the science rules.