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atomfullerene t1_iwcnb5t wrote

Reply to comment by rsc2 in How do we have more woolly mammoth DNA than dodo DNA if woolly mammoths died off thousands of years ago and dodos only died off a few hundred? by Memer9456

Until recently, museums weren't particularly trying to preserve DNA. Sometimes you can get DNA from museum specimens, but they aren't specifically great for it (still better than nothing, though).

But for dodos specifically, there are only 2 or 3 specimins in the world that were collected when the species was alive, and only one of those has any soft tissue

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2013/09/19/the-best-natural-history-specimen-in-the-world/

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