I will choose to believe that there was a tribe of Deer People, probably the result of a lonely hunter finding a very shapely doe in the woods. Science has spoken.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah! I came here to ask if there was any proof that it wasn’t a woman who could transform into a deer.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Nah man, it's Deer Lady.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was.

[–] heydo@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was too.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did you think it was vampiric deer, too?

[–] skvlp@lemmy.wtf 3 points 11 months ago

Now I do!

[–] heydo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I was.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering how they even got any. I was under the impression that DNA doesn't last that long.

[–] Bentov@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

2 million years old sample is the oldest.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".[38] A few days later, on the 7th of December 2022, a study in Nature reported that two-million year old genetic material was found in Greenland, and is currently considered the oldest DNA discovered so far