A fossilized mosquito preserved for 46,000,000 years was discovered with blood still inside its abdomen a rare snapshot of ancient life frozen in time

Article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/1015/46-million-year-old-mosquito-filled-with-blood-is-a-scientific-first

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Knowing our current tech landscape, some startup CEO will convince a bunch of investors that he can get an AI to produce the genome sequence using existing sequencing data to predict what dinosaur DNA actually was.

And even though it's obviously a rugpull, any hypothetically successful AI would probably just get stuck outputing genomes that result in different types of bananas.