Can we use prehistoric DNA?
Updated on 08 April 2008
Fossilised animals found in France can be examined using advanced X-rays. More4's David Fuller investigates the DNA potential.
Hundreds of preserved creatures, trapped for millions of years in amber, have been discovered in France.
Long-standing DNA dreams
The fossilised animals can be studied using advanced X-rays and this will shed extraordinary light on the mid-Cretaceous period.
But could it also revive long-standing dreams of using DNA from prehistoric life?
