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Philip J. Currie

joined in Jan 10, 2020

Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Currie has 1 break published.

Blood from a golden stone: dinosaur discoveries within amber

In his novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton envisioned dinosaurs being cloned using DNA from the blood inside ancient mosquitoes preserved within amber. Amber is a fossilized tree resin (not sap) that often contains plant and animal remains and protects them from many forms of decay.... click to read more

W. Scott Persons | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Philip J. Currie | Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Corwin Sullivan | Associate Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

feathers

dinosaurs

Cretaceous

amber

Jurassic park

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 10, 2020