Hunt for the Oldest DNA Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow the quest to recover DNA millions of years old for the very first time.
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and reveal a lost world from before the last Ice Age.
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Hunt for the Oldest DNA Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and reveal a lost world from before the last Ice Age.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(curious music) - How can we travel back in time?
Is there a time machine?
Yes.
It's ancient DNA.
(dynamic music) - We're all chasing this precious time capsules.
- It's like our instruction manual for what's coming.
- We're stealing genetic secrets of the past so we can rescue the future.
- [Narrator] "Hunt for the Oldest DNA," on Nova.
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Could Jurassic Park Actually Happen?
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Will we ever get dinosaur DNA? (1m 55s)
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The oldest DNA ever recovered revealed an ecosystem unlike anything that exists today. (2m 54s)
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