Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Here's the actual sentence.

"Dna tests on the Waimanu penguin fossils, found near the
Waipara River, have determined they are between 60 million and 62 million 
years old "

I figured that they must have found usable DNA; after all, there is DNA from 
dinosaur eggs, and DNA from ancient flies in amber.   But I'd like to see 
that explained properly.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morgan Churchill" <mmcjawa@yahoo.com>
To: <frank@blissnet.com>; "Dinosaur Mailing list" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs


> Pretty sure what they meant was that they used the date of the fossils to 
> calibrate the avian molecular clock...they didn't get actual DNA from the 
> fossil, but they can use it's geological age to help date the divergence 
> of penguins from other neornithes
>
> frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:  No way for 60 million years old 
> Penguin DNA! Mantra repeat again and
> again.
> Frank (Rooster) Bliss
> MS Biostratigraphy
> Weston, Wyoming



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