I was just thinking about how oil is organic matter, deep in the earth, decomposed, ect. when I wondered: Would there be a way to tell what life the oil came from? What species, specifically?
We had a thread while back about recovering DNA from fossils, but I can't find it. Anyway, there is a new study which claims to have identifed plant DNA between 300 and 400 thousand years old.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2949629.stm
They also claim to have found DNA from vaious...
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