Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
