Chapter 76: That's it
"Nope!"
"Nope!"
"Nope!"
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Finding DNA from fossils that remain 60 million years ago is like buying a lottery ticket, and the probability of winning is extremely low. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info has nothing to gain in the Museum of Natural History, and there is nothing in the Museum of Paleontology.
Meng Yang ran for two days in a row, and went through all the museums in Kyoto that contained dinosaur fossils, but he still found nothing.
Looks like it's going to have to be on a business trip......
There are a lot of dinosaur museums and dinosaur parks in the empire, excluding those who make a few statues to fool people, excluding those who specialize in coaxing children to play, and then excluding those whose collections are not rich enough, there are still seven or eight museums that are more well-known and have rich collections, and the rest of these are Meng Yang's goals.
Baidu checked and checked, Meng Yang quickly locked on a target, it is the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum, the reason why it was selected is because this museum has more than 17,000 dinosaur egg fossils, this number is the largest in the world.
If there is DNA left, then it is reasonable to say that the nearly sealed eggs are the easiest to leave residues, so Meng Yang specially chose a museum with the most dinosaur eggs as a target.
Heyuan is in Guangdong, a straight-line distance of more than 2,000 kilometers, and doing a train at such a long distance must be to find guilt for yourself, but if you want to take a plane......
Meng Yang is still a little weak-hearted, because he plans to use Lin Hairong's identity to go over, impersonate him to make a plane, be checked by airlines and airport security, and check over and over again, there will be no problems......
But this matter is like the eldest girl getting on the sedan chair, there will always be a day, I'm afraid it's useless, unless he doesn't use Lin Hairong's identity, he will encounter a similar situation sooner or later, he must see if this identity can withstand general inspection.
It's very simple to buy a plane ticket, but when he arrived at the airport, he was about to change his boarding pass and prepare to go through the security check, Meng Yang was still a little apprehensive, for fear of being recognized. Fortunately, there was a green light all the way, there were no twists and turns, and Meng Yang successfully passed the test in confusion, which made his fluttering little liver finally settle down, and it seems that this photo can still be fake.
Flying directly from Kyoto to Yuezhou, along the way, Meng Yang walked into the Heyuan Museum with a certain apprehensive mood, and saw a large piece of dinosaur egg fossils, looking spectacular.
"9527, is there here?" Meng Yang walked around the museum as he scanned the dinosaur eggs one by one.
"Full DNA detected!" After a series of negatives, 9527 finally gave good news.
"Which? Which one? Meng Yang suddenly felt that he had won the lottery.
9527 directly highlighted the dinosaur egg in Meng Yang's field of vision, it was a large dinosaur egg, the appearance was complete and smooth, and it looked like a huge pebble.
Meng Yang imported the DNA data into the scan, and began to simulate the dinosaur characteristics of this DNA expression, and soon a duck-billed dinosaur, which could be seen from the external morphological features, was a herbivorous dinosaur.
It seems that Meng Yang should go buy a lottery ticket, and he had good luck today, and he quickly scanned the second dinosaur egg with residual genes.
It was a larger dinosaur egg, and after the simulation was restored, it showed a dragon with a huge horned shield on its head, which was a ceratosaurus.
When he was about to leave the museum, Meng Yang had the last harvest of the day, the DNA of a Lufeng dragon.
The DNA of the three dinosaurs, the harvest is not bad.
There was still a period of time before the assignment was handed in, and Meng Yang began to sweep the more famous museums one by one, Zigong, Lufeng, Xixia, Zhucheng......
Meng Yang became a trapeze artist, shuttling through different cities, and his main task every day was to get from one airport to another, and then burrow into one museum after another.
Some museums are built on the sedimentary layers where fossils were formed, and only a small fraction of the fossils have been excavated, and there are still a large number of unexcavated fossils in the strata at the foot of the museum. It's hard to stop 9527, all of these fossils will be scanned.
After nearly two weeks of busyness, Meng Yang embarked on a journey back to Beijing with a rich harvest, this time he collected a total of dozens of dinosaur DNA, this harvest was much higher than he expected, originally thought that after tens of millions of years of sedimentation, DNA would be difficult to find, but he didn't expect to find so much.
This may be related to the level of technology, for human earth technology, the available DNA must have a certain activity, at least can be clearly identified by genetic testing equipment.
But for 9527, it's completely different, as long as the DNA is not destroyed, it doesn't turn into other substances, even if there is only a nucleus left, it is enough for 9527 to find it out of a large pile of rocks and get the complete data.
When Meng Yang was busy collecting DNA, thousands of kilometers away at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Menghua was still worried about the cause of the mutation of Beiyang chicken.
After studying for such a long time, the Beiyang chicken has been thoroughly studied both genetically and biologically, because it is not complicated in itself.
Li Menghua feels that it is very simple to define Beiyang chicken, which is a kind of enlarged version of the local chicken that suddenly appeared and seemed to fall from the sky.
No matter in terms of characteristics, organs, or even instincts, habits, and biological characteristics, Beiyang chickens are almost exactly the same as local chickens. What is the character of the chicken, what is the character of the chicken, the chicken will dig the nest, the action of the chicken is almost not bad, even the courtship and mating, the competition for mates, and even the interaction with the breeder, the Beiyang chicken is the same as the chicken.
The only puzzling thing is that how did the Beiyang chicken appear? It's not really going to fall from the sky, is it?
Li Menghua knows very well that with the level of domestic gene editing technology, no research institute has been able to develop Beiyang chicken; If 2,000 Beiyang chickens can be mutated naturally, the probability is probably the same as throwing a thread from the earth and just threading it into the nose of a needle on Mars.
Scientists are sometimes like people who specialize in decryption, and each technical difficulty is a riddle, which needs to be deciphered by scientists, and the biggest reward for scientists is precisely the sense of accomplishment when they find the answer to the mystery.
Puzzle ......
What exactly should be the answer?
While Li Menghua was still pondering, Tian Haitao suddenly broke in.
"Teacher! Teacher! I know how the Beiyang chicken came to be! ”
Hearing this, Li Menghua perked up, "What's the matter?" ”
Tian Haitao took out an iPad, quickly called up the map of Beiyang City, zoomed in on the map step by step, and then pointed to a point on the map.
"I guess that's it! That's right, it's definitely it! ”