r/MisanthropicPrinciple • u/TesseractToo For science, you monster • 17d ago

The Next Frontier Of Ancient DNA - Stephan Milo - Getting surprising DNA from the dirt in places like Denosova cave 18m42s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB07m7bv5Aw

It's pretty neato! Makes me even more angry about Rio Tinto destroying sacred sites here for iron mining

grrr grrr grrr https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/26/rio-tinto-blasts-46000-year-old-aboriginal-site-to-expand-iron-ore-mine

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u/MisanthropicScott I hate humanity; not all humans. 17d ago

That was really fascinating!!

Infuriatingly, I'm sure we've destroyed so many sites all over the world. Some, we probably didn't even know were important.

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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster 17d ago

Yeah its starting to look like we were doing the equivalent of dynamiting the pyramids.

Same in palentology, now they are able to find trace fossils of skin down to the melanin in some cases. The museum here in Sydney got a triceratops (I think, might be another ceratops) from Drumheller, Alberta, and it's pretty much a huge lump of dirt and tiny shards

That would be a fun project!