6/25/2023 0 Comments Jurassic park first edition![]() ![]() (Whether the study’s release was a coincidence, or Nature timed the article to the movie is unclear, but it certainly seemed intentional to the public and the scientific community.) The publicity came not from his studio’s $ 65 million promotional plan, but from real, legitimate scientists. ![]() It seemed like the perfect stroke of luck for famed director Steven Spielberg. The prestigious science journal Nature published this breathtaking new discovery in June 1993, a single day before another momentous occasion: the release of Jurassic Park. This was, they believed, the oldest DNA ever recovered. But what mattered most to researchers who found it in the present day were the short, fragmentary strands of DNA they had managed to extract from the insect. ![]() That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland. Around 130 million years ago, a weevil gorged itself on wood pulp and died a sticky death in the relentless grasp of slow-moving resin. ![]()
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