Now if that news has your inner evil-overlord scheming a plot to create a clone army of intelligent prehistoric bugs, sorry, we've got bad news.

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Scientists have determined that the half-life of DNA is 521 years, effectively ruling out any hopes of creating a clone army of pretty much anything beyond 6.8 million years ago.

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Panos Zavos , the Kentucky fertility doctor and would-be human cloner, apparently doesn't see Lucas' clone army as a problem.

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