A real-life Jurassic Park for extinct creatures has moved a step closer after scientists extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of birds

科学家们成功地从灭绝鸟类的蛋壳化石中提取DNA，从而为我们揭示了更为真实的 侏罗纪公园 。

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For hundreds of years, humans studying ancient life had to rely on stones and bones for hard evidence about what extinct creatures looked like.

几百年来，研究古生代生活的人们必须依赖石头和骨骸这些确凿的证据来说明那些已不复存在的生物是什么样的。

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If you thought "Jurassic Park" and the large, reconstructed skeletons seen in museums were the closest we'd ever come to seeing extinct creatures come to life, you might want to think again.

如果你还觉得人类只能通过《侏罗纪公园》和博物馆里重建的巨大骨架来和已经灭绝的生物亲密接触，那你就落伍啦。

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Most tellingly, she says that rock cores taken recently from the crater itself show a band of sediment above the impact that contains fossils of tiny creatures that became extinct only at the end of the Cretaceous.

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