You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave. — 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 at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak. — 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
