2,500-Year-Old Bird Femur Yields DNA (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

2,500-Year-Old Bird Femur Yields DNA

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Ornithologist David Steadman holds the Caracara creightoni femur used for radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis. Previous studies of ancient DNA relied on much bigger samples of bone, Steadman said.

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Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

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